Zend Framework Released 25
banetbi writes "The new Zend Collaboration Project website is finally online. Included in the site is a completely new PHP Developer Zone and a pre-release of the Zend Framwork."
Happiness is twin floppies.
Re:wtf is it? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:wtf is it? (Score:1)
1) Zend Platform, a service platform for PHP in production environments
2) Zend Core a supported PHP binary distro for IBM & Oracle
Re:wtf is it? (Score:1)
Re:wtf is it? (Score:2)
Someone has to ask...
Zend Platform (Score:5, Funny)
I'll be sure to not tell all of my clients about it as they'll wonder what's wrong with the PHP builds we're running now.
Re:Zend Platform (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Zend Platform (Score:4, Informative)
"Zend Platform uniquely guarantees application uptime and reliability through enhanced PHP monitoring and immediate problem resolution that removes the troubleshooting guesswork out of the equation and replaces it with peace-of-mind."
They aren't saying that PHP as a platform isn't good enough, they're saying that Platform helps ensure your applications run smoothly. Platform is essentially a combination opcode cache, partial and full page cache, and in depth monitoring and event logging. If the applications you are running experience a problem - be it a fatal error, warning, unusually slow performance, slow sql query or whatever custom metrics you define - you can be alerted right away. You're also able to reproduce any event that has been logged instantly through the IDE's debugger. Basically, it keeps things running nice and quickly, and when an issue in the application causes a problem, it gives you the information needed to quickly fix the problem.
We've actually been running Platform since it was first available, and while pricey it's been a great tool to have. It's not perfect and there are some issues that I'd still like to see resolved, but none of them have been show stoppers. I wish they would offer a cheaper version with just the logging functionality though, there are cases where we really don't need anything else.
MVC For PHP (Score:2)
While I have been building MVC frameworks in PHP for awhile now for corporations, I'm still intrigued to see what Zend will provide. Will this be compiled into the engine? Are these C libraries or java API's that will handle the majority of these additional functionalities?
I'll
Re:MVC For PHP (Score:1)
PHP 4 support? (Score:2)
Unfortunately, until PHP 4 is only used on a very insignificant number of sites, I can't integrate this into products without cutting off a significant portion of m
Re:PHP 4 support? (Score:1)
Re:PHP 4 support? (Score:1)
Re:PHP 4 support? (Score:1)
Someone said it DID work with PHP4, but the FAQ [zend.com] says differently:
It's too bad. I wish there were a killer MVC framework for PHP4 with it's massive install base.
Re:PHP 4 support? (Score:1, Informative)
Re:PHP 4 support? (Score:2)
Damn. I was really hoping to use that search component...
Woof. (Score:2, Flamebait)
Re:Woof. (Score:3, Insightful)
Zend Framework has many promising features, especially it's Zend_Db classes. Things like Zend_Db_Table, Zend_Db_Table_Row provide very helpful tools when building systems. In addition, the query-building feature is a nice bonus when query compatibility is important across databases like MySQL, Oracle, MSSQL.
Just curious,
Always wonder... (Score:1, Interesting)
I always wonder how has PHP achieved so high market penetration. It is easy to introduce parsable errors like in Perl. It is slow, like Python. It can be unreadable, like Perl. Some custom extensions (mainly PECL) make shared hosts extremely exotic, like Python and Ruby. So no big deal. All of them, PHP, Perl, Python and Ruby have their disadvantages. Why is PHP so sucessfull while there are fully operational frameworks (like Catalyst) when PHP has unfinished Zend Framework or Seagull 0.x.x.
Don't get me
Re:Always wonder... (Score:4, Interesting)
PHP was the easiest thing to learn and do useful things with at a time when everybody was jumping on the
Re:Always wonder... (Score:1)
Nothing can be unreadable like Perl. Except maybe the output of /dev/random. :-)
PHP is a good tool for the job - it was created for web applications. Perl can be a good tool for different jobs, but it wasn't designed for web work. Nor was Python nor Ruby, which