Zend Framework is a tool which facilitates creation of efficient online applications. It was created by Zend Technologies company and independent developers. The fact that it’s developed under control of people responsible also for PHP gives it, among all frameworks available for this language, biggest guarantee of high quality and lasting support.
This fully object oriented framework is a powerful tool, especially in hands of experienced developer.
More than 500 people cares about its safety, simplicity and functionality. It’s perfect to create safe and efficient business applications, ideal for any company, whatever its size or requirements are. Zend’s Debug and profiling tools allow to prepare efficient high-standard project.
Below you will find usage examples of some components available in Zend Framework:
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Access certain sections after authorization
Sharing website’s content only with selected users (Zend_Auth component).
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Authorization using existing accounts
Application access using already existing Twitter or Facebook accounts.
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Safe privileges management system
Safe privileges management system, via complex but easy to use Zend_Acl.
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Multilanguage websites
Implementation of such mechanism is surprisingly easy thanks to the components like Zend_Locale, Zend_Translate, Zend_Date and Zend_Currency.
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Communication with social networking websites
Zend_Gdata allows to use plenty of Google and YouTube services, whereas set of components from Zend_Service group allows to communicate with websites like Amazon, Flickr, Twitter, Yahoo.
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Search engine
Zend Framework has its own release of popular search engine called Lucene.
Zend Framework can be compared to blocks –properly connected can create any project, strictly matched to the individual needs and requirements.
