An Overview of Official Release of Zend Framework 3

Zend is used for developing PHP based applications for almost all industry verticals such as online retail shop, real estate, media, social media, publishing, and, etc. The primary purpose of Zend Framework is to make PHP, a powerful language and ease its adoption. It has seen two generations namely ZF 1 and 2 since its inception and has successfully built several enterprise grade PHP applications.

Zend Framework 3

However, we find that the web and mobile world are changing constantly and in accordance to the change, the new version ‘Zend Framework 3’ has been released recently (June 28, 2016) which could be used to develop modern web and mobile applications in PHP 7, which has four times higher performance in PHP 5 and more than 4X under PHP 7. Further, they are making an attempt to install each of the packages with minimal amount of dependencies so that it could be used in other frameworks like Laravel or the Symfony.

The new Zend Framework 3 is meant for simplicity, performance, and reusability by embracing the new paradigms and patterns. It is more productive for the beginners and advanced developers as well because it focuses on component based development which is completely optimized for PHP 7. One may anticipate that it would create a great demand for the Zend Development Companies in India and elsewhere across the world. The main disadvantage of ZF2, i.e., performance issue has been resolved in this new version.

Some of the new and additional features included are represented below.

The components have been separated into individual and versioned projects enabling the re-use and thereby increasing the velocity of innovation.

The additional de-coupling of packages allows for re-use.

• A strong emphasis on HTTP messages was made. 

• The documentation is available within each component repository. 

• The Diactoros has been implemented in the PHP ecosystem 

• Stratigility, a PSR-7 middleware foundation is based on the node.js 

• The Zend Framework ships with Expressive, a microframework as a parallel offering with the MVC full-stack framework. 

• The PSR-7 represents the future of Zend Development in India and elsewhere across the globe. 

With the release of ZF3, the Zend has announced that Zend Framework 1 would end which is effective from September 28, 2016. The migration of version 2 to 3 would be easier as a number of compatible features are provided. And the ZF2 MVC applications have a documented upgrade path which requires minimal changes for migration to ZF3.