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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

Tags: php framework zend lucene

Inspired by the blog What I Want From A Framework, I want to discuss what I want from a web application rapid development kit(WARDK) as a lazy developer. I am going to use PHP language as an example in my discussion, but the discussion can apply to other languages such as Java, Ruby, and Python.

Here’s what I want: the most important and common features (every web application that supports multiple users need to have these):

• user management(CRUD operations on users, ban users, user group management), pluggable authentication(LDAP, OpenID, integration with other systems) OpenID)

Tags: java php web application framework development ruby python

Moshe Weitzman posted a link to this great presentation “Flickr and PHP” by Cal Henderson in the developer mailing list of Drupal. It's about how Flickr uses PHP, MySQL and Web Services. I found another very similar presentation.

Here's a different one done by Cal at O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference: Web Services Mash - up

Here is what I took away from these presentations:

Tags: php mysql flickr scalability