Laminas Project (formerly Zend Framework)

Likelihood to Recommend

I would say you can use Zend with any project of any size but in a personal experience I would recommend it more for small or medium sized projects. Since the code you will be writing with Zend has more verbosity than the one you can write with other frameworks, that might be a problem to maintain larger projects.

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Team Lead in Engineering

Computer Software Company, 201-500 employees

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Pros

Excellent interface for databases. I trust that no bad data will accidentally be injected causing the databases to become corrupt or drop.
The routing is really great. We have a lot of custom routing and it makes it very easy to add or adjust routes and ensure they're getting where they need to go.
Zend provides so much flexibility in the controllers for dealing with the view. It's so easy to customize the view to render just how you want it. Especially when dealing with a request that may or may not be ajax.

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Lauren Merka

Senior Software Engineer

ViumbeInternet, 11-50 employees

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Cons

Zend Framework 2 is overly complex for small projects.
Zend Framework 2 documentation sometimes overlooks small details, which means you will need to delve into the code directly.
Zend Framework 2 bug fixes on GitHub usually take quite a long time to get patched.

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Takahiro Horie

Senior Software Engineer

Credit KarmaConsumer Services, 201-500 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

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Likelihood to Renew

Laminas Project (formerly Zend Framework) 8.0

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I absolutely love Zend Framework. However we are using Zend Framework 1 and when we get to the point that we need to go Zend Framework 2 (for PHP namespacing) I may explore other frameworks. When we chose Zend it was the best option for us. I'd like to see if maybe there's a better fit that doesn't have the same complicated overhead of Zend Framework

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Lauren Merka

Senior Software Engineer

ViumbeInternet, 11-50 employees

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Usability

Laminas Project (formerly Zend Framework) 9.0

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Zend is very usable once you learn how to use it. I've had moments where I thought what I want to do isn't possible but I've learned I haven't looked in the correct place yet. Zend is a Catch-22. It's very usable once you know how to use it. But I strongly feel it's worth learning

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Lauren Merka

Senior Software Engineer

ViumbeInternet, 11-50 employees

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Support Rating

Laminas Project (formerly Zend Framework) 10.0

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Zend Framework has the best (paid) support and ecosystem I've ever seen in a PHP framework. The company has developed many products, including Zend Server, Zend Debugger, and an Eclipse-based IDE that extends the framework to create an entire development platform that can improve developer productivity and software quality while maintaining the clean architecture that characterizes the framework.

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Leonel Quinteros

Software Development Engineer

RingConsumer Electronics, 1001-5000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

While Zend Framework is similar to Laravel and Symfony, and seemingly more popular among businesses, I feel like it is harder to use compared to these two. Laravel and Symfony seem more friendly to the developer in terms of documentation and ease of use, though Zend Framework isn't too far behind and can be more powerful.

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Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology

Automotive Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Return on Investment

Overall, Zend PHP Engine has had a positive return on our business objective of creating a medium sized web-application, debugging the application to assess problems before they occur, and to create dynamic API calls via our backend custom software.

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Matthew Mariner

Front End Web Developer

SYNRGO, Inc.Real Estate, 201-500 employees

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