- To optimize their productivity, developers must have tools to analyze how applications work in production and to quickly detect and resolve errors.
- To meet user expectations, developers and system administrators need to be able to collaborate to ensure reliable, scalable and fault tolerant PHP applications.
- To increase the rate of successful deployments, PHP developers must be able to work with consistent environments for development, staging and production.
More on Zend Web Application Server solutions
»
ZEND NEWS
Award-winning Zend Framework releases version 1.5!
Zend Framework was awarded a “Jolt Productivity Award” at the 18th annual Dr. Dobb’s Jolt Awards, the “Oscars of the software industry.” With over 4.5 million downloads, Zend Framework has become the fastest growing PHP framework on the market. Now the award-winning open source framework has released version 1.5 which supports new services and enhancements to many existing features. Highlights include:
- Support for OpenID and Microsoft’s InfoCard - two emerging technologies behind “Identity 2.0,” a movement to simplify and fortify identity management online
- Forms – New support for forms, including Ajax usage patterns that makes building and using web-based forms much easier
- Layout and view – New layout support and view enhancements for consistent look and feel throughout PHP applications
- LDAP authentication – Now with enterprise-ready authentication using LDAP technology
- Lucene search engine – New advanced queries using wildcards, date ranges, fuzzy searches as well as Lucene index format version 2.1
- Extended Ajax support – Server-side support for Ajax with action helpers to automate Ajax detection and responses makes programming using JavaScript & PHP much easier
- UTF-8 character sets in Adobe PDF creation – PDF support enhanced to enable non-Latin character sets such as Kanji, Cyrillic, etc.
- Google GData web services – Significant enhancements to Google Data services makes it easier to build web applications that leverage the Google application network. New support for upload and write capabilities to Google YouTube
Download Zend Framework using Zend’s high
speed content delivery network »
View recent Zend Framework Webinars
»
ZEND PRODUCTS & SERVICES
Zend announces new Zend Framework Support Subscription
The new annual support subscription gives you critical technical and consulting support, that can assist you during the development phase of your Web application project. This support subscription also helps reduce business and technical risk, increases developer productivity and speed time to deployment improving your overall success rate.
More on Zend Framework Support Subscription »
New Zend Core certification delivers business-critical PHP on Windows Server 2008
High-performance web applications can be deployed with confidence on Microsoft’s new Windows Server
2008, the next generation platform for running business-critical applications. Microsoft and Zend have worked
together on Zend Core, Zend’s tested, certified and supported version of PHP. Zend Core and PHP are now
certified for Windows Server 2008.
Windows Server 2008 software certification consists of approximately 100
test cases that independently confirm an application's compliance with best practices for compatibility, security,
reliability, and availability on the new platform, while ensuring the software performs in a 64-bit environment. The
certification identifies top-performing technologies that are ready to deploy in mission-critical environments. As a
participant in the Microsoft Early Access Program (EAP) for Windows Server 2008 Software Certification, Zend Core
is one of more than 300 applications that are eligible for certification on a pre-release version of the new platform.
More on Zend Core for Windows Server 2008 »
Zend announces two new training courses for PHP professionals
Zend Studio for Eclipse Training (Also available with a Zend Platform Integration Add-on)
Zend Studio for Eclipse, the next generation in the Zend IDE family, now has a new course for
developers. Simulating many of the major processes and challenges faced when developing applications, this
course uses hands-on exercises to demonstrate all the functionality you need to develop robust applications and
reduce time-to-deployment. The Zend Platform add-on to the course will give you insight into Zend
Platform’s performance, scalability and reliability features through the tight integration with Zend Studio for
Eclipse.
Zend PHP I: Foundations - for i5/OS
Designed to provide ILE programmers with a
solid foundation in the PHP language, this new training course guides you through the basics of PHP using
numerous examples and hands-on exercises. During this course you will also become familiar with new capabilities
of Zend Platform specifically for i5 /OS system programmers such as the 5250 Bridge, PHP i5 Toolkit, DB2
Extensions and much more.
MARCH SPECIAL OFFER
Zend Studio for Eclipse Training - Get the most out of your IDE!
Master the rich feature set of the world's best PHP IDE, get introduced to time saving features that will make
your PHP development an ease and learn to better monitor performance bottlenecks in your code so you optimize
for production as you develop!
Save over $200 when purchasing a license of Zend
Studio for Eclipse along with the new training course.
Buy Now »
