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No Yes Yes
Command line
scripts required to
setup framework
No No No No Yes
Requires
configuration
Yes (minor amount) No No Yes Yes
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Comprehensive
ORM provided
No Yes No No Yes (Propel)
Good
documentation and
tutorials
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Unit tests for source
available
Yes No No Yes Yes
Community support Yes Yes Yes Yes (some) Yes
License New BSD MIT BSD-style New BSD MIT
Whilst this book is all about the Zend Framework, the other frameworks are worth investigating to see if
they match better with your requirements. If you still need to support PHP 4, then you will need to use either
Cake or Code Igniter as the rest do not support PHP 4. In this day and age, however, it??™s time to leave PHP 4
behind us!
1.6 Summary
In this chapter we have looked at what the Zend Framework is and why it is useful for writing web
applications. It enables rapid development of enterprise applications by providing a full stack framework using
best practices in object oriented design. The framework contains many components from an MVC controller
through PDF generation to providing a powerful search tool.
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