Zend Framework - Lucene for PHP and more

Zend has released the preview version of its Zend Framework for PHP.

Its feature set looks fantastic:

• Model view controller
• DB abstraction
• Feed API to deal with RSS/Atom feeds
• httpclient
• Input filter(first line of defense dealing with data. This should put an emphasis on dealing with SQL injection)
• Integration with JSON
• Logging solution
• Emailing
• Dealing with PDF file
• Zend_Search_Lucene - a port of the very popular java-based Apache Lucene search engine
• Web service wrappers to talk with Amazon, Yahoo, Flickr
• XML-RPC

I am particular excited to see the offering of Zend_Search_Lucene because PHP world has been searching for a searching/indexing solution (every website needs searching functionality). The fact that "Zend_Search_Lucene's file format is fully binary compatible with its Java counterpart", it makes it easier to have a integrated PHP and Java solution.

Thanks you, Zend!

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