Zend Framework
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| Developer(s) | Zend Technologies |
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| Initial release | March 3, 2006 |
| Stable release |
3.0.0 / June 28, 2016
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| Written in | PHP 5 |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| License | New BSD license |
| Website | framework |
Zend Framework (ZF) is an open source, object-oriented web application framework implemented in PHP 5 and licensed under the New BSD License. The Framework is basically a collection of professional PHP based packages. The framework uses various packages by the use of Composer as part of its package dependency managers; some of them are PHP unit for testing all packages, Travis CI for continuous Integration Services. Zend Framework provides to users a support of the Model View Controller (MVC) in combination with Front Controller solution. MVC implementation in Zend Framework has five main areas. The router and dispatcher functions to decided which controller to run based on data from URL, and controller functions in combination with the model and view to develop and create the final web page.
Zend Framework is licensed under the Open Source Initiative (OSI)-approved New BSD License. For ZFv1 all code contributors must sign a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) based on the Apache Software Foundation’s CLA. The licensing and contribution policies were established to prevent intellectual property issues for commercial ZF users, according to Zend's Andi Gutmans.ZF2 is CLA free. There is also a longterm support available for the framework (long term support or LTS) for a total duration of 3 years. In order to do this one need to modify the Composer requirement for Zend Framework.
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