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language. Date and time routines are also provided with a simple object oriented interface to the multitude of
ways that we humans display the calendar.
Http Components
The Zend Framework provides a component to read data from other websites. Zend_Http_Client makes it easy
to collect data from other web sites and services and then present it on your site. A server component is also
provided to allow for PHP based serving for web pages. Obviously this component is intended for
development and other specialized requirements rather than general web page serving, as proper web-servers
like Apache are orders of magnitude faster!
Inter-application Communication Components
When you need to communicated with another application over HTTP, the most common transfer format is
one of two flavors of XML: XML-RPC and SOAP. As you would expect from an enterprise-class framework,
the Zend Framework provides components to allow for easy processing of both XML-RPC and SOAP
protocols. More recently, the lightweight JSON protocol is gaining favor, mainly due to how easy it is to
process within the JavaScript of an Ajax application. Zend_Json provides a nice solution to both creating and
reading JSON data.
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