PHP is preferred now a days for small to medium volume site by coders and architects. As it is open source technology and lots of forums,
ready scripts and frameworks available, it is becoming very much common. However developing web application faster yet maintaining quality
is a bit worrying point for most Software Solution Provider firms. But to easy out this problem, thanks to many open source available
framework provider companies who has released quality frameworks, out of which very much versatile and commonly used framework is
Zend Framework.
Since the release of Zend’s framework 1.x, it is widely used however the release of latest edition 1.9x it has given many things a coder
would need to develop a quality website. As per expert’s opinion, ZF offers a robust component library
which provides 80 percent of the
functionality mostly needed by developers.
The rest of the 20 percent can be altered as per requirements of the website.
Some of the major advantages of using Zend framework are:
- MVC Architecture: MVC or Model- View- Controller is a well-known design pattern that delimitates
the database and business logic from the presentation layer and making the code simple, clean and
understandable.
- Meaningful and Attractive URLs: Almost all major frameworks follow the concept of making your URLs
look attractive and easy to access.
- In Built comprehensive Validators: As with major PHP framework, you no longer need to manually enter
all the validation criteria for your forms. You only need to instantiate a new form validator object
and instruct it as we need and rest would be handled by framework.
- Finish Your coding faster: Frameworks help the developers to write code faster and thus speed up
the coding phase and yet manage quality, readability and versatility.
Zend Framework includes all latest Web Development Features like:
- AJAX support through JSON – meet the ease-of-use requirements from your customers.
- Search – Inclusion of 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 now allows to consume & publish web services
- High-quality, object-oriented PHP 5 class library – attention to best practices like design patterns, unit testing, & loose coupling
There are other players also in the industry. CakePHP which is a preferred option for beginners,
not well versed with OOPs.
One major aspect of Zend Framework is very good documentation, quick responsive forums, example codes,
and webinars for a starter to move ahead with Zend Framework. So Hurry Up .. Switch to Zend Framework.
Thanks & Regards,
Aum InfoTech Team