Friday, 29 June 2007

Coming Soon: Zend PHP Framework 1.0

Zend Technologies is offering the 1.0 version of its popular PHP framework (Hypertext Preprocessor) Web application development on July 2.

This software was downloaded more than 1 million times in its pre release form.

According to Zend, the 1.0 version of Zend Framework is the first framework with support from a corporate entity and relevant contributions from companies like IBM and Google.

"It's an application framework for building high-quality Web applications and Web services with PHP," said Andi Gutmans, CTO and co-founder of Zend.

The 1.0 framework will have an architectural guidelines, best practices, and reusable components for functions like authentication, access control, filtering, and session management. Zend is offering its open-source framework for free but sells ancillary support services.