What the difference between zend framework and Wordpress as framework ?

Question

i only know wordpress and start to seek another alternative framework, zend. i heard hearsay that zend's better from others framework. if you're "a serous coder", or try to act like one, you need to use it on building your web app.

some said zend is better. But it's subjective. It's fast ans secure. But nobody tell me the reason or at leas compare it with with wordpress.

ultimate question : Do zend have theme or plugin just like wordpress ?

any hint will be helpful

edit. maybe it's stupid, but it's a question. if you don't like it, or you feel it's offensive then donwvote. i don't mind ;). no hard feeling

Answer 1

Zend is an application framework. WordPress is a buggy blog manager. If you don't know the difference, then you probably have no reason to use Zend.

Answer 2

You're comparing apples and oranges. Wordpress is not a framework, it's a publishing tool. The only thing you can do with Wordpress is make blogs.

A framework is a set of code that provides you with tools to build things. Zend Framework is a web framework that lets you build web applications. In fact, you could build Wordpress using Zend Framework (and it would probably be way better than its current sad design). You could build any other kind of site with Zend Framework. What Zend doesn't do is provide you with a bunch of pre-built web pages and templates and content management systems... those are all publishing tools (which you could build with a framework).

In short, you can't build a web app with Wordpress, since it's not a framework, and Zend doesn't have themes because it's a coding tool.

Answer 3

Wordpress is a content management system. It is much more specialized than Zend, which is a generic application framework.

You could build a clear with Zend for example. Bit you would have to build it from the ground.

Answer 4

You are asking the difference between Ferrari and the tomato. Both are red, but…

• Zend Framework is a Framework
• Wordpress is a Blog software

You may write app like Wordpress using ZF, but not vice versa.

See also What PHP framework would you choose for a new application and why?.

Answer 5

There appears to be a project called Zendpress to create a Wordpress-like blog platform built on Zend Framework. Strikes me as a great idea, though at present, there doesn't seem to be any significant activity there.

Answer 6

I dissagree that Wordpress is not a framework. As a developer you can develop plugins into wordpress that can do some pretty neat things. Okay, you may say that wordpress is not a framework itself, but it does provide a development framework that allows developers to tap into. True it started life as blogging software, but to limit wordpress to only blogs is not doing wordpress the justice it deserves.

Zend_Framework on the other hand is completely different to wordpress. Zend_Framework will help your web development, but it wont do it for you. Where wordpress will work as a content management system/blog out of the box leaving the developer with a plugin framework to allow you to build custom modules and code that will run within wordpress, Zend_Framework will expect you to build everything from scratch. Sure it will provide some helper classes to help you along the way, but its up to the developer to pretty much write their entire application from scratch using Zend tools.

Personally speaking if you want complete and utter control over your entire application, and want to do everything from scratch with some help from Zend, then Zend_Framework is a tool you might want to investigate. If however you just want a website with a little customisation, then wordpress is a very good tool for that.

But the two dont compare side by side, they are different solutions for different problems.