Extending the art & spirit of PHP, Zend Framework is based on simplicity, object-oriented best practices, corporate friendly licensing, and a rigorously tested agile codebase. Zend Framework is focused on building more secure, reliable, and modern Web 2.0 applications & web services, and consuming widely available APIs from leading vendors like Google, Amazon, Yahoo!, Flickr, as well as API providers and cataloguers like StrikeIron and ProgrammableWeb.
Key Advantages of using Zend framework:
It helps in reducing the cost of website creation It helps professionals or developers to reduce code repentance in creation of website It is developed under MIT license so it is free for everyone All components are fully object-oriented PHP 5 and are E_STRICT compliant Use-at-will architecture with loosely coupled components and minimal interdependencies Extensible MVC implementation supporting layouts and PHP-based templates by default Support for multiple database systems and vendors, including MySQL, MS SQL Server Email composition and delivery, retrieval via mbox, Maildir, POP3 and IMAP4
3E Solution is actively using Zend framework for rapid and robust web application development. PHP experts at 3E Solutions have developed some successful Web Projects based on Zend framework.