There are a lot of PHP frameworks inspired by Ruby on Rails (CakePHP, Akelos, symfony). Is Zend Framework inspired in other frameworks or ideas? Do you have references (websites, books, etc) talking about it? Thank you.
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Zend Framework is as much a framework as PEAR is. (And quite often you hear ZF classified as PEARs successor.) Overall it's better classified as library, because it's less a coherent building block and practically more an asortment of features.
mario
2010-09-25 20:47:35
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Yes, all of the frameworks are inspired by one another. In fact, there is a Working Group among a number of the frameworks to collaborate on useful ideas and improve compatibility in general. At present, there are members from CakePHP, Zend Framework, Solar, Agavi, Lithium, Doctrine, Symfony, Typo3, PEAR, Joomla, phpBB, and Drupal.
I am in the group but serve as a member at large mostly listening in on discussions and occasionally asking a question or three.
CaseySoftware
2010-09-25 21:53:40
Huh, interesting. There's collaboration? Tell more about that working group. Linky?
mario
2010-09-25 22:45:40
http://groups.google.com/group/php-standards - It's not open for general membership, but requires you to earn your way in by either being a representative of a framework and/or active in the community.
CaseySoftware
2010-09-26 17:27:26