Introduction of Zend Framework

In this session, I would like to make a post about Zend Framework.

Zend Framework is an open source php framework, that could help you to build web faster and robust. This framework was created by the company main supporters of PHP. Zend also supporting web 2.0 and cloud computing technologies.

Reason why use Zend are :

1. Free and open source framework (licensed under the New BSD License).
2. Extreme Simplicity.
3. High productivity.
4. Flexible Architecture.
5. Supported by more than 300 contributor, include IBM and other major companies. 

You can try and use this framework by download at:  http://framework.zend.com/. On that site you also can find the framework user community. For the requirements , Zend Framework requires PHP 5.2.4 or later since version 1.7.0. Previous versions required PHP 5.1.4 or later, although the ZF Programmer's Reference Guide strongly recommended PHP 5.2.3 or later for security and performance improvements included in these versions of PHP. Zend Framework 2.0 will require PHP 5.3.3 or later. For next posting, I'll focus on Zend Framework 2.0.

Beside that, make sure that on your pc have installed web server like Apache, database server like MySQL. The most important thing is zend framework is recommended to build the web with sufficient complexity.

So let's use Zend Framework !!  :D

References :

1. http://www.phpeveryday.com/articles/Zend-Framework-Basic-Tutorial-P840.html
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zend_Framework