Recently, a new framework entered the world based on a relatively unknown language called Ruby.
Rails (or Ruby on Rails as it is also known) promoted the concept of convention over configuration and has
taken the web development world by storm. Shortly after Rails came along, a number of direct PHP clones
have appeared, along with a number of frameworks that are inspired by Rails, rather than direct copies.
In late 2005, Zend Technologies, a company that specializes in PHP, started their PHP Collaboration
project to advance the use of PHP. There are three strands to the project: an eclipse IDE plugin called PDT, the
Zend Framework and the Zend Developer Zone website. The Zend Framework is an open source project that
provides a web framework for PHP and is intended to become one of the standard frameworks that PHP
applications of the future will be based on.
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1.3.2 What??™s in it?
The Zend Framework is composed of many distinct components grouped into a set of top level modules. As a
complete framework, you have everything you need to build enterprise ready web applications. However, the
system is very flexible and has been designed so that you can pick and choose to use those bits of the
framework that are applicable to your situation.
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