Zend PHP Engine provides a powerful development environment with open-source capabilities, essential for creating custom applications on Linux servers. It offers comprehensive support for various coding practices and tools, allowing seamless application management.
| Product | Mindshare (%) |
|---|---|
| Zend PHP Engine | 2.3% |
| Apache Web Server | 8.0% |
| NGINX Plus | 7.9% |
| Other | 81.8% |
This engine serves as the core of PHP’s performance, supporting efficient custom web application development with features like strong class support and compatibility across hardware and software platforms. It offers a robust environment with PHP, MySQL, and Zend Server, promoting effective deployment and real-time monitoring. The community's significant support aids developers in crafting versatile applications suited to dynamic project requirements.
What are the key features of Zend PHP Engine?Developers utilize Zend PHP Engine in various fields, leveraging its capabilities to build network monitoring tools, manage complex databases, and create bespoke business applications. Its effectiveness extends to CMS, HRMS, and multi-vendor app development. The engine's flexibility reduces the requirement for extensive coding, streamlining the development process across industries.
Zend PHP Engine was previously known as PHP Engine.
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| Author info | Rating | Review Summary |
|---|---|---|
| CEO at VonatelNetworks | 4.0 | I use Zend PHP Engine in a government project for network monitoring and data collection. It performs well but lacks AI features for enhanced competition. While I prefer open-source tools, customers often opt for commercial solutions. |
| External Consultant (Digital Tool Developer and Intervention Specialist) at IQVIA | 3.5 | I appreciate Zend PHP Engine for being open-source, which is its best feature. However, it would benefit from further development of a general scripting language embedded into it. I've deployed it on Amazon Web Services without considering other solutions. |
| Sr Php Developer ( Tl) at IT MNC INDIA | 4.5 | I have completed over ten projects using the Zend PHP Engine framework, appreciating its superior security for large applications. However, improvements are needed in library loading times due to its extensive and innovative features. |
| Senior Web Developer at a retailer with 1-10 employees | 4.0 | The Zend PHP Engine excels in compiling code quickly and efficiently managing dynamic cache, though it could improve by allowing more contribution to optimization, particularly for WordPress projects. Its main use is typically in background code compilation. |
| Developer, Tech Lead at iT corner | 4.0 | I use Zend PHP Engine to develop applications tailored to business needs. It requires improvement in its object-oriented programming language. I deploy it on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and have not considered alternative solutions or previously used others. |
| Co-Owner at Tekbilge Internet Technologies Ltd & IDA LTD | 4.0 | I find Zend PHP Engine easy to use for managing database variations with IDs. Although valuable for its simplicity, PHP requires extensive conditions or a framework. I use Google for deployment and haven't considered previous or alternate solutions. |
| Co-Founder / Solution Architect / Project Manager (Mobile & Web Apps Development) at PRAXINFO | 4.5 | We use Zend PHP for custom web app development due to its cost-effectiveness, open-source libraries, and strong community support, making it highly scalable. Its main drawback is the lack of native concurrent processing, requiring workarounds. Overall, I rate it 9/10. |
| CEO at a tech services company with 51-200 employees | 3.5 | I found Zend Server offers a complete PHP development environment with valuable caching and real-time monitoring. However, I experienced complex installation, scaling issues with exponential data growth, and latency under many concurrent connections, which led me to rate it 7/10. |
| IT Consultant, Business Owner, Lecturer at a tech consulting company with 10,001+ employees | 4.0 | We find Zend/PHP a fast, flexible, open-source choice for web applications, improved by PHP 7 for scaling. We prefer it for its community and cost, though SQL queries need caution and async programming lags competitors. |
| Software Architect at a tech consulting company with 51-200 employees | 3.5 | I find this solution enables faster PHP web app implementation. While stable, I believe its MVC and ORM tool integration needs ample improvement for a better developer experience. |
We use Zend PHP Engine in a government project to develop a tool for network monitoring analysis. We utilize the tool to collect all the network data for a platform.
PHP allows us to personalize a solution if the customer desires. This flexibility is beneficial.
Integrating AI tools would make PHP more competitive, as other tools already have AI features.
We have used Zend PHP Engine for two years.
Zend PHP Engine is stable, providing good performance as data collection increases.
Zend PHP Engine is scalable, as it performs well even as the amount of data collected increases.
I don't really use support for PHP. The information available is not as diverse as I would expect.
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Prior to using Zend PHP Engine, I used open-source tools. Our team of developers and I generally prefer open-source solutions. However, customers often prefer commercial solutions.
I have experience with other monitoring solutions like Nagios and Zabbix.
Setting up PHP is easy and straightforward.
We are a small group with two developers, one project manager, and a database person.
PHP is good for personalized solutions if the customer wants it customized. If the customer wants a commercial solution, they typically choose a commercial option.
PHP is an open-source solution.
I'd rate the solution eight out of ten.
The fact that it is available open-source is the best feature.
A general scripting language should be further developed and should be embedded into it.
I have been Zend PHP Engine for nine years.
Multiple people are using the solution.
Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.
I completed more than ten projects using the Zend PHP Engine framework. I completed one website for CMS, three to four websites for HRMS, one for single-vendor applications, and two for multi-vendor applications. I completed three websites for professional services.
Zend PHP Engine is more secure than any other framework, and I usually prefer Zend PHP Engine for big applications.
Zend PHP Engine needs to improve the loading time of its libraries and make it faster. Zend PHP Engine's library is very big and innovative compared to any other framework.
I have been using Zend PHP Engine for five years.
I rate Zend PHP Engine an eight out of ten for stability.
More than five people are working with Zend PHP Engine in our organization.
Zend PHP Engine's technical support team is very quick.
The solution’s initial setup is easy.
Zend PHP Engine is not an expensive solution.
First-time users should first understand the library and then use the Zend PHP Engine framework.
Overall, I rate Zend PHP Engine a nine out of ten.
Most of the time I don't really know where the solution is used, but in most of my deployments, it is used for compiling the codes I have written in the background.
The most valuable feature of this solution is the speed at which it compiles and sends the dynamic cache.
The solution can improve by providing freedom to contribute to the optimization because most of the projects are written in WordPress.
The solution can be quicker.
I have been using the solution for four years.
The solution is stable.
There is no real need to set up the solution because it's built into the deployment. I just need to wait, five to 10 minutes to make the instance server boot up.
The solution is open source and you just pay for the server cost.
I give the solution an eight out of ten. I have not had any problems with Zend PHP Engine and I don't really have to focus attention on it because it gets the job done.
I am the only one that uses the solution in my organization.
We selected Zend PHP Engine over the competition because it is the most supported solution in the community.
I recommend the solution over others because it is the most available and has a big community of users.
We use the solution to create applications according to specific business requirements.
The solution's object oriented programming language needs improvement.
We have been using the solution for ten years.
It is a stable solution. I rate its stability an eight out of ten.
I rate the solution's scalability as ten. We can scale it as per our requirements. We have 3000 solution users as our customers and three to four developers managing it.
The solution's customer service is available 24/7.
The solution's initial setup process is easy. I rate the process a nine. It takes 10-15 days to customize it as per requirements. Also, two to three executives are required to set up servers.
We use the solution's open-source version. Also, its paid version is not expensive. Its pricing depends on the number of users.
The solution is very flexible and easy to use. I rate it an eight out of ten.
This solution is easy to use and does not require a lot of code. I use it to manage variation from registered database parts with IDs.
This solution is really easy for me to use.
The biggest problem with PHP is you have to write lot of conditions or have to use a framework.
I have been using this solution for ten years.
This is a stable solution.
I would rate the scalability of this solution a five out of ten.
I have not needed to contact the support team.
The initial setup is easy and straightforward.
I would rate it an eight out of ten because it offers a lot of free resources that offer many different ways to run projects.
At our company, we mainly use it for development projects where we need to create a customized web application. In most cases, we use a Linux web hosting server and Zend PHP is then the engine that runs on top of our chosen Linux-based OS. In addition, we regularly make use of different PHP frameworks including Laravel and others.
With the PHP engine, a major benefit is that we can cut down on so many additional expenses, from the development stage to the deployment stage.
For development, there are many open-source extensions and libraries available to us, so as a web app development company we're not bogged down by proprietary technologies when designing custom applications. And for deployment, we have broader options available than when using any Java-based or .Net-based server or architecture.
There's also the fact that we can easily pick up popular PHP-based platforms like WordPress and customize them to our needs, which gives us much more time to focus on the business side of development.
Essentially, we get the best performance at very affordable costing. And we can then pass those savings forward onto our clients, which makes everyone happy.
I find Zend PHP valuable for a number of reasons. It offers good support for various types of classes, along with many open source libraries that we can readily utilize in our application development process. This gives us a lot of options when it comes to custom development solutions, without having to worry about licensing or other programming-related issues.
On top of that, the support from the community is probably the biggest advantage of using PHP since there is rarely a case when you can't find help from other professionals online.
In terms of improvement, it doesn't support concurrent processing. When we want to process anything on a concurrent basis, we have to divide it into a number of things, like a queue, or we have to run it using Cron jobs. We would like to have the capability to run any thread or process in parallel.
Other than that, most everything we need out of a programming language and web application engine are all there, either packaged as part of the core engine or available as extensions and libraries.
I have used Zend PHP Engine since PHP version 5.0, so for a good number of years now.
The stability of PHP itself is very good. The only problems we have encountered have had to do with incorrect configuration of the server architecture or infrastructure.
In my experience, PHP is indeed highly scalable. In one of our applications, we had to process a huge amount of traffic for video-based content which required almost a hundred AWS instances. We had configured load balancers and as soon as the traffic spiked, the application smoothly generated more instances on-demand and handled the traffic with no problems.
We also find that PHP scales well even where there are multiple user types with different roles, all using the same app simultaneously. In this case, one user role was "artists", who were producing video content and uploading it. Then another role of "administrators", who had their own separate panel for admin and maintenance tasks. And, of course, there were the regular users who were using the application to watch videos. All in all, PHP managed fine even with all this going on with a high number of users.
As an open source development solution, we rely on support provided by the larger community of PHP professionals. So when we have technical issues with development or deployment, we often turn to the community for help or research existing solutions and discussions online.
Before PHP, I personally used a variety of .NET framework languages. The main reasons I switched were:
Getting started with PHP is relatively straightforward and not very complex at all.
Initial setup and deployment are largely dependent on the type of project and the number of libraries required by the specific application, as well as any external frameworks we are working with. Generally, if everything is set up and configured properly, our deployments can take around four to five hours in total.
Our typical implementation strategy is that we tend to make one document beforehand with all the deployment notes. In this deployment briefing, we define all the necessary commands and all the necessary variables and configuration parameters. For example, what should be the exact version running on the server, and what should be the most compatible versions of different software components that are attached to the project. Based on that, we can start our deployment.
I work closely with our in-house team that handles implementation and deployment.
Our direct ROI is immediately positive, as the PHP engine is open source and free to use.
Indirectly, we have also found other benefits to investing in Zend PHP, including the wide availability of affordable PHP server hosting and the fact that our development time has been reduced thanks to the easy access to open source libraries.
Zend PHP Engine is open source technology, so there's no need for us to worry about licensing or other costs. The only costs involved are indirect, i.e. what we have to pay for server hosting and related infrastructure services.
I recommend Zend PHP Engine because it's currently the best solution we have for building robust and scalable websites.
Its open-source nature is definitely the main reason, among others. With PHP, there are so many possibilities to come up with your own solutions, and beyond that, you can also draw from all the existing solutions provided by the community.
I would rate Zend PHP Engine a nine out of ten.
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.
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.
Most of our projects involve CMS systems, but also custom PHP coding. The Zend Framework provides an easy, open source way to produce coding based on the needs of our customers.
Zend Engine is the core of PHP. It makes PHP fast, efficient, and basically, the language of choice for web applications. Most of the Content Management Systems today are based on PHP, making it much easier to maintain and extend them.
Zend Engine gives the flexibility to use external modules to easily expand the functionalities you need for your web project. It has significantly improved over the different PHP versions, improving memory management, developing a flexible internal build system for PHP, and allowing for an easy interface for external module development.
The competition with Zend/PHP has been increasing. HHVM is the main competitor when it comes to performance. However, the Zend Engine in PHP 7 has significantly improved, promising a more than 100% increase in performance. The main area that Zend needs to improve is to support asynchronous programming tasks, which is facilitated in PHP 7, but not at the same degree as HHVM.
There used to be stability issues with the MySQL functions, however with the move towards MySQLi, there has been a significant improvement. Additionally, SQL queries have always been an issue with PHP, especially if you use large tables, which require caution from the side of the developer.
We have not encountered issues with scalability as long as we effectively use caching to optimize performance of our web applications as well as a proper use of database connectivity.
Since Zend/PHP is open source, you will always find someone that has faced the same issue as you in the online community. However, if a company requires frequent technical support, they need to hire highly qualified, PHP developers, who are in abundance.
We tried ASP.NET for a period of time. However, the flexibility of Zend PHP, the cost savings since it is an open source, and the large open community led us to choose Zend PHP.
To install PHP is very easy, but to configure it properly according to the needs of your projects does require expertise.
Not applicable.
We evaluated Zend PHP against ASP.NET.
Zend PHP has evolved a lot since its initial concept. At the moment, it is the language of our choice. Easy to use and implement, flexible, and with the right developers, you can do a lot. Scaling up is an important factor for large projects, and with PHP 7 and its performance improvements, this becomes even easier.
Faster web app implementation, when PHP dev is required by customers.
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.
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.
