Zend Framework, a collection of PHP packages for building web applications, has been upgraded to version 3. The new version provides dramatic increases in performance and a microframework for middleware development, Zend said.
Version 3 has been measured to be as much as four times faster with PHP 5 -- and it's even better than that with PHP 7, the latest version of the server-side scripting language, said Rogue Wave's Matthew Weir O'Phinney, project lead for Zend Framework. (There was no PHP 6.) In fact, support for PHP 7 is a key feature of Zend Framework 3.
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