Zend Framework

Some Zend Framework statistics of interest.

Latest Web Development Features
* 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


Authentication, Authorization, and Session management
* Zend_Acl
* Zend_Authentication
* Zend_Session

Virtually all web applications have some user-specific data that must be customized, and usually, protected from access by other users. Accomplish this quickly and easily with the above features of Zend Framework.

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Mail, Formats, and Search

* Zend_Json, Zend_Pdf
* Zend_Mail, Zend_Mime
* Zend_Search_Lucene

Web 2.0 applications require support for Ajax, PDF generation, e-mail communication, and search, all an increasingly important part of web applications today. Zend Framework simplifies a developers life and gives you built-in support for these essential, if not critical, features for your application.

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Model-View-Controller (MVC)

* Zend_Controller, Zend_Controller_Action, Zend_Controller_Dispatcher, Zend_Controller_Plugin, Zend_Controller_RewriteRouter, Zend_View
* Zend_Http_Request, Zend_Http_Response

The above components make use of the industry standard web application design pattern MVC