Zend Smart Start

Accelerating time-to-PHP and Zend

Zend Smart Start provides a practical way for businesses to begin leveraging PHP for their Web applications projects. Delivered by PHP experts, this five day on-site engagement includes everything your organization needs to develop, deploy and manage PHP Web applications and employ best practices helping ensure your overall success including: on-site installation and configuration, training and consulting.

Through a fixed-price, fixed-deliverable service delivered by certified PHP experts, Zend Smart Start helps to effectively leverage PHP expertise for your mission-critical projects.

During the 5 day Zend Smart Start Service customers receive:

  • Complete Installation and Configuration of a PHP environment on up to 3 nodes to meet even the most demanding application projects
  • Focused development training (3 days on-site) for up to 5 students and System Administrators training for one student (on-line) so development and production staff have a functional understanding of PHP and Zend products.
  • Knowledge transfer and mentoring on applying best practices to Web application projects.

Maximize Development Efficiency

Zend Smart Start training courses are designed to provide customer’s staff with the foundations of PHP and best practices for managing business-critical PHP applications. Through relevant exercises integrated throughout the courses students apply their newly learned PHP skills to business relevant applications improving efficiency and code quality.

Reduced Risk and Lower Total Cost of Ownership

As part of Zend Smart Start, our PHP experts install and configure all the necessary components to support even the most demanding web application projects. On a customer designated server, our experts install and configure the AMP (Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack and Zend Servers (Zend Core, Zend Platform) giving you peace-of-mind that your web application infrastructure is installed and configured to meet the demands of your web application projects.

Installation and Configuration Components

AMP Stack – The foundation for PHP Web application projects
  • Apache
  • MySQL
  • PHP (Zend Core)

Zend Core – Dependable PHP
  • Zend Framework
  • phpMyAdmin
  • Oracle Client

Zend Platform – Enterprise Reliability and Comprehensive Performance
  • Comprehensive Performance
  • Cluster management
  • Web Services (SOAP)
  • Java Bridge
  • Session Clustering
  • Job Queue

Training Courses

  • Zend Studio for Eclipse: Delivered on site, the Zend Studio for Eclipse Course is designed to provide PHP programmers with a practical, in-depth knowledge of the next generation tool in the Zend Studio IDE family. Zend Studio for Eclipse combines professional PHP development capabilities with the Eclipse multi-language support and plug-in extension technology, to create the world’s most powerful PHP IDE.
  • Platform for System Administrators: Delivered on-line, the Zend Platform Training Course for System Administrators will demonstrate to System Administrators how Zend Platform provides an optimal environment for running PHP applications tools - improving availability and performance while maintaining and synchronizing PHP configurations.