Here’s an interesting sales pitch. Using a PHP Framework? Cool. Just make sure you add Zend.
The Zend Framework is a fairly standard, (optionally) MVC PHP application framework. It comes with all the usual functionality; request routing, database access, templates (through view files) etc. It also comes with a lot of extra functionality that you might find useful in your application, including some of the best web services libraries available, especially when working with Google’s APIs.
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