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Zend Framework--an open-source community, and the leading PHP 5 framework today

Zend Technologies recognizes that contributing to the open-source community is important and we've tried to put our "money where our mouths are" by devoting significant company resources to sponsoring and leading the Zend Framework project.


Comprising a cadre of top engineers at Zend, along with more than 300 other contributors, including IBM and other major corporate contributors, the team and community have delivered a highly acclaimed, well-supported, thoroughly tested PHP 5 framework that gives you a vibrant community your company can depend on, open-source code you can use as you please (including building your own business specific code and reselling as you see fit--with the new BSD license), and the latest Web 2.0 and other modern features all web applications need.

For more information on the open-source community and project that makes Zend Framework available, go to the Zend Framework community site.

Simply put: Zend Framework is the easiest way to build PHP applications



We have implemented Zend Framework to embody what we call extreme simplicity & productivity, the latest Web 2.0 features, simple business-friendly licensing, and an agile well-tested code base that your enterprise can depend on.

Zend believes that mature professional applications and the teams that develop them require professional, objected-oriented tools and patterns to deliver on the promise of faster time-to-market web applications and services that have become the hallmark of PHP 5. Zend Framework is that solution--an open-source, easy-to-adopt, and highly productive set of PHP 5 components and best practices.

Built for Zend Framework: Professional PHP 5 solutions from Zend

Zend Core --a reliable, managed PHP 5 stack for professional use--is the easiest way to download Zend Framework and ensure that you've got all the correct PHP extensions installed, updated, and secured to fully exploit the power of Zend Framework. Maintaining consistency between your development environment and your production deployment is easy with Zend Core and greatly reduces problems when you're ready to deliver your Zend Framework application.

Developing PHP applications on Zend Framework is made much easier with the integration, code completion, and other ease-of-use features that are built into Zend Studio. Get the time-savings that comes from an integrated framework and toolset by using Zend Studio with Zend Framework.


Deploying Zend Framework applications doesn't need to be difficult either, with Zend Platform, you get a high-performance monitoring, caching, and remote debugging ease-of-use (and much much more) that Zend's engineers have built into the only Zend Framework-optimized application server available. Prepare for deployment of your application by using Zend Platform's Developer Edition to understand the powerful tools available and at your disposal while running Zend Framework & PHP 5 applications in production settings.

With a professional stack, the hottest tools, and most feature-rich application server available for PHP 5, your Zend Framework applications are ready for business-critical web-delivered solutions today.

Download Zend Framework as part of Zend Core today!
Tested. Thoroughly. Enterprise-ready and built with agile methods, Zend Framework has been unit-tested from the start, with stringent code coverage requirements to ensure that all code contributed has not only been thoroughly unit-tested, but also remains stable and easy for you to extend, re-test with your extensions, and further maintain.


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