Using the Zend framework

According to Zend Framework Case Study available at https://www.zend.com/topics/Magento-CS.pdf, the Magento project chose to go with industry-standard PHP and the Zend framework because of the extremely simple, object-oriented, and flexible solution that encapsulates best practices and agile testing methodologies and that would result in a very rapid development of enterprise-grade web applications.

Using the Zend framework as the main pillar in the Magento project definitely includes the following advantages:

  • Magento contributors around the world know the Zend framework
  • There is great web services support to integrate Magento with different software solutions in order to share data
  • The MVC design pattern helps organize project ...

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