Extending the art & spirit of PHP, Zend Framework is based on simplicity, object-oriented best practices, corporate friendly licensing, and a rigorously tested agile codebase. Zend Framework is focused on building more secure, reliable, and modern Web 2.0 applications & web services, and consuming widely available APIs from leading vendors like Google, Amazon, Yahoo!, Flickr, as well as API providers and cataloguers like StrikeIron and ProgrammableWeb.

Zend Framework is designed simplicity in mind. To provide a lightweight, loosely-coupled component library simplified to provide 4/5s of the functionality everyone needs and that lets you customize the other 20% to meet your specific business needs. By focusing on the most commonly needed functionality, simplified spirit of PHP programming is retained, thus dramatically lowering the learning curve, and training costs so developers get up-to-speed quickly. This is done with:

* An extensible and well-tested code base easy to augment
* A flexible architecture not locked-in to a rigid application structure
* No configuration files necessary to get up and running or when maintaining and deploying your apps


Frameworks and best practices mean reduced training costs and quicker time-to-market important factors in adoption decisions. Built so you can pick and choose just the pieces you need to turbocharge your web applications all your developers know where to find their PHP / Zend Framework code, speeding new development and reducing maintenance costs.

• AJAX support through JSON – meet the ease-of-use requirements your users have come to expect


• Search – a native PHP edition of the industry-standard Lucene search engine



• Syndication – the data formats & easy access to them your Web 2.0 applications need


• Web Services – Zend Framework aims to be the premier place to consume & publish web services


• High-quality, object-oriented PHP 5 class library – attention to best practices
  like design patterns, unit testing, & loose coupling