Zend PHP Engine Reviews

The cache modules that Zend provides have been able to optimize and accelerate the loading of the pages when there was exponential growth in data volume and quantity of requests. At the same time, the monitoring console allowed us to have a real-time understanding of the resources and to make decisions when they were at the limit.

Offers a complete environment to develop PHP applications. It is valuable because it allows you to have a complete stack (PHP, MySQL, Zend Server) enabling the building of a development environment, and to deploy to the production system.

Finally, it provides real-time monitoring of the application, which is very useful for tracking the performance as well as the resources that are being used. Having a monitoring console allows you to anticipate problems, when there are many who are consuming resources.

The process of installing and configuring the product is a bit complex and could be improved.

One to three years.

When there were many concurrent connections, the page presented latency problems in terms of loading.

I would rate the product at seven out of 10 because, although it offers a complete environment to develop and deploy PHP applications, it has some limitations. For example, when the volume of data increased exponentially, I had problems scaling the system. And if you do not have enough knowledge of the product, the initial configuration itself can be difficult.

Although, of course, I know about AWS and we have worked with AWS, we have not done so in an implementation with this product.

Take a complete look at the manuals and documentation before starting to configure the server, to help avoid performance issues.

Faster web app implementation, when PHP dev is required by customers.

• Standard Library (StdLib)
• Loader
• Cache classes
• ServiceManager
• Events and EventManager 
• i18n support

Integration of MVC with ORM tools for PHP is okay, but lacking a short list of decent ORM tools for PHP to choose from; there is ample room for improvement in both areas.

Three to five years.

No issues with stability encountered.

No issues with scalability encountered.

As with any open source tool, it offers free dev community support, which is okay, even though the fastest free way to get support is StackOverflow, as usual.

We started using Zend while customizing an open source web app developed with Zend, for a customer.

We did some in-house training on Zend web app dev prior to working with the tools; no issues with setup.

No problem with pricing and licensing, as tools are open source. You have to consider training cost, mindset setup cost, as part of the TCO.

No. It was imposed as part of customer requirements.

Open source tools are tricky to consider because some aspects of TCO may not be straightforward to identify, such as sizing and impact from the perspective of an ISV.

1. It is free and available for download. 2. It makes web design easy and quick and gives well finished websites. 3. It being open source makes it be compatible with many other heterogeneous hardware and software e.g. MYSQL. 4. It supports many back-ends and that is what I want as a developer.

1. It has many classes included in its requests so it eats up memory and slows down the website. 2. The platform is not satisfying to me -- it is just not up to standards performance wise.

It is object-oriented hence makes web programing easy and faster.