Zend Framework is based on simplicity, object-oriented best practices, corporate friendly licensing, and a rigorously tested agile codebase. It is focused on building more secure, reliable, and modern Web 2.0 applications & web services, and consuming widely available APIs from leading vendors.

Through an advanced Model-View-Controller (MVC) implementation the framework can be used to establish a basic structure for applications. It has many loosely coupled components that can be used more or less independently.

Here are some key features of "Zend Framework":

· AJAX support through JSON
· Search – a native PHP edition of the industry-standard Lucene search engine
· Syndication – the data formats & easy access to them
· Web Services
· High-quality, object-oriented PHP 5 class library

Requirements:

· PHP 5.2.4 or later

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Refactored HTTP component
· New Zend\Cloud\Infrastructure component
· New EventManager component
· New Dependency Injection (Zend\Di) component
· New Code component
· New plugin broker strategy
· Rewritten Session component
· Refactored View component
· New and refactored autoloaders