Zend Framework Last modified: Monday, April 07, 2008
Abbreviated as ZF, the Zend Framework is an open source object-oriented Web application framework implemented in PHP 5. The goal of ZF is to simplify Web development while maintaining object-oriented best practices for building Web 2.0 applications and  Web services. The Zend Framework was developed by a large open-source community lead by Zend and its distribution is based on the new BSD license.
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