The key features of the Zend Framework are:
Everything in the box
Modern design
Easy to learn
Full documentation
Simpler Development
Rapid development
1.2.1 Everything in the box
The Zend Framework is a comprehensive full stack framework that contains everything you need to develop
your application. This includes a robust MVC component to ensure that your website is structured according to
best practices. Accompanying the MVC component, there are components for authentication, searching,
localization, PDF creation, email and connecting to web services, along with a few other more esoteric items
as shown in Figure 1.2.
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Figure 1.3: The Zend Framework can be divided into ten main modules
That??™s not to say that the Zend Framework doesn??™t ???play nice??? with other libraries; it does that too. A core
feature of the design of the framework is that it is easy to use just those bits you want to use with the rest of
your application or with other libraries such as PEAR, the Doctrine ORM or the Smarty template library.
1.2.2 Modern design
The Zend Framework is written in object-oriented PHP5 using the modern design techniques, known as
design patterns.
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