Zend Framework 1.0.0 Production Released

framework.zend.com — Zend Framework is now the best class library available for PHP 5 web application development. It is an open source project that provides solutions to solve frequent needs of web application developers, including the following areas: Powerful MVC, Database access solutions, Advanced I18N support, Robust authentication/authorization, and many more. Jul 1, 2007 View in Crawl 4

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vinvin Jul 2, 2007

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I was the same, but then I decided to try the Zend Framework and now I'm hooked (still need to get the hang a bit though). Though I still need to find out if the "New BSD License" the ZF is licenced under is compatible with the GPL, but I think so. That would be a very strong point.

olliholliday Jul 2, 2007

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and cake is slooooow

Closed Account Jul 2, 2007

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Usually things like this take off faster, keep in mind when I dugg it,it was only at like 20 diggs

roagie Jul 2, 2007

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I believe they're also used with the autoload() function to auto-include the files needed to define a class. For example, when you instantiate a class Zend_Controller_Action, that file physically resides in a directory path of Zend/Controller/Action. PHP is not case sensitive, so I'm not sure if they could split the string on caps, but underscrores, sure. PEAR does this as well.

cosmo7 Jul 2, 2007

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I've been happily using Zend Framework for production sites for over a year - since version 0.1.3. I've found that Dojo combines with Zend very nicely.

sniperx Jul 2, 2007

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PHP 5 only is both a pro and a con, cake will work on php 4 or 5; Cake has a load of documentation, though it's in the form of API pages and community code samples, the manual is somewhat lacking, thus a newcomer to PHP (read: somewhat who can't easily read php code to see what commands do and how they do it) would have difficulties; the quality is superb with cake because they only have code written by the core cakePHP dev team, which keeps the code clean; cake has standalone components as well as it's been in 1.0+ production for roughly a year now. So I think the question still needs to be answered. I think Zend might be better solely because the team working on it KNOW where PHP will be going in the future, and they know better than anyone how to completely optimize the code, though I have yet to see benchmarks comparing the two. At this point it's still really a toss up, give them both a shot, see which you prefer.

kevinold Jul 3, 2007

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I am very confused by Zend Framework. Having used symfony and CakePHP (PHP frameworks) and Catalyst and Jifty (Perl frameworks) as well as Rails I don't get why ZF doesn't provide a "project" creation set of tools. Having to setup directories/structure, repopulate the standard index pages make the ZF feel less of a framework and more of just a set of libraries to develop against (kind of like PEAR). Just my $0.02.

modmac01 Jul 25, 2007

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The goal with the Zend Framework was to make a set of components that you could use in other systems and were flexible enough to be used with out the entire framework. Compared to the tight coupling in other frameworks i think they made the right choice making the zend framework more flexible.