Zend Framework

Zend Framework (简写ZF)是由 Zend 公司支持开发的完全基于 PHP5 的开源PHP开发框架，可用于开发 Web 程序和服务，ZF采用 MVC(Model–View-Controller) 架构模式来分离应用程序中不同的部分方便程序的开发和维护。

Zend Framework (ZF) is an open source, object-oriented web application framework implemented in PHP 5 and licensed under the New BSD License.^[3]

Requirements

Zend Framework requires PHP 5.2.4 or later since version 1.7.0. Previous versions required PHP 5.1.4 or later, although the ZF Programmer's Reference Guide strongly recommended PHP 5.2.3 or later for security and performance improvements included in these versions of PHP. Zend Framework 2.0 will require PHP 5.3. PHPUnit 3.0 or later is required to run the unit tests shipped with Zend Framework. Many components also require PHP extensions.^[11]

[edit] Features

Zend Framework features include:^[12]

• All components are fully object-oriented PHP 5 and are E_STRICT compliant
• Use-at-will architecture with loosely coupled components and minimal interdependencies
• Extensible MVC implementation supporting layouts and PHP-based templates by default
• Support for multiple database systems and vendors, including MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and Informix Dynamic Server
• Email composition and delivery, retrieval via mbox, Maildir, POP3 and IMAP4
• Flexible caching sub-system with support for many types of backends, such as memory or a file system.

[edit] Building and running Zend Framework applications

Zend Framework applications can run on any PHP stack that fulfills the technical requirements.

Zend Technologies provides a PHP stack, Zend Server (or Zend Server Community Edition), which is advertised to be optimized for running Zend Framework applications. Zend Server includes Zend Framework in its installers, along with PHP and all required extensions. According to Zend Technologies, Zend Server provides improved performance for PHP and especially Zend Framework applications through opcode acceleration and several caching capabilities, and includes application monitoring and diagnostics facilities.^[13]

Zend Studio is an IDE that includes features specifically to integrate with Zend Framework. It provides an MVC view, MVC code generation based on Zend_Tool (a component of the Zend Framework), a code formatter, code completion, parameter assist, and more.^[14]

Zend Studio is not free software, whereas the Zend Framework and Zend Server Community Edition are free.

Zend Server is compatible with common debugging tools such as Xdebug.

Other developers may want to use a different PHP stack and another IDE such as Eclipse PDT which works well together with Zend Server. A preconfigured, free version of Eclipse PDT with Zend Debug is available on the Zend web site.

基本介绍

　　Zend Framework 是用于 PHP 开发 Web 应用程序和 Web Service 程序的高品质开源框架。 　　利用 PHP 自身特性，Zend Framework 有很高的易用性和强大的功能。它提供了先进、健壮和安全的开发网站的解决方案。 　　ZF中的组件可以独立使用，但如果将它们组合起来，就形成了一个强大而可扩展的web开发框架。 ZF 提供了强壮而高效的 MVC实现，易于使用的数据库摘要和实现 HTML 表单解析、校验和过滤的表单组件，这样 开发者可以通过这些易用的、面向对象的接口联合所有这些操作。其它组件如 Zend_Auth和 Zend_Acl通过通用 的证书（credential）存储提供用户认证和授权。还有其它实现的客户库来简化访问最流行的可用的 web 服务。 不论你的程序需要什么，你都可能从 Zend Framework 中找到经过全面和严格测试的组件来使用，可以极为有效地减少开发时间。 　　Zend Framework 项目的主要赞助者是 Zend Technologies，但许多 其它公司也贡献了组件或重大功能。例如 Google、 Microsoft 和 StrikeIron 作为伙伴提供了 web 服务接口和其它 希望给 Zend Framework 开发者使用的技术。 　　没有活跃的 ZF 社区，Zend Framework 就不能交付和支持所有这些功能。社区成员包括贡献者都可以在这些地方找到： mailing lists, IRC channels 和其它论坛。无论你有什么关于 ZF 的问题，在社区里总能找到答案。

编辑本段主要特性

　　代码完全采用PHP5 面向对象编写；丰富完善的组件支持；良好的 Ajax 支持； 　　模块化的结构设计，易于扩展；完善的文档资料；灵活的架构设计； 　　MVC是提高程序的可维护性的方法：将这个程序代码分为MVC三个部分