Zend Core, a part of the Zend Platform Enterprise Solution, provides a certified PHP stack that includes the most reliable and up-to-date version of PHP, tested PHP extensions, database drivers and other enhancements.
Zend Core is bundled with Zend Framework (the leading open-source PHP framework), Apache and MySQL and IBM DB2 Express-C databases. The complete stack is built, tested and benchmarked to ensure optimum reliability and performance for multiple platforms.
Zend Core makes it easy to have consistent environments for each stage of the PHP application lifecycle, avoiding application errors that often go undiscovered during development, testing and staging because of subtle differences between these environments.
Zend Core provides:
- Unified, tested application stack installer, including PHP, Apache Web server, drivers for all common databases, extensions and Zend Framework
- Improved performance and reliability on Windows
- Admin UI for simple configuration of extensions and for PHP application monitoring
- Software updates and hot fixes
- Zend Optimizer and Debugger extensions, which make it easy for PHP developers to ensure the quality of their PHP applications and to protect their applications from unauthorized use
