Zend Technologies is the company which funds the development of the Zend Engine (the engine PHP is based on), as well as Zend Framework and some other projects like Apigility. They also build proprietary software of high professional caliber, designed for high intensity PHP work in large companies - software like Zend Studio and Zend Server - though both are excellent tools for solo devs as well. In this post, we’ll be taking a look at the latter.
What is Zend Server?
Zend Server is, essentially, a locally-run web application which helps you run, deploy, debug and production-prepare other applications you write. It’s more than a developer helper, though - you can install it on your production servers and have it take care of hosting, clustering, file distribution and more.
It automatically installs Zend Framework (both version 1 and 2 for some reason) and Symfony 2, and supports GUI-based management of other libraries and projects for total ease of use. All operating systems and platforms are supported, and you can install it alongside Apache or Nginx - your choice. You can have it pull in PHP version 5.4 or 5.5, and it will do the rest on its own once you run the installation script.
The latest version of ZS, version 7, comes in several licenses and flavors, so give those a read if you’d like to know about the differences.
The concept of Zend Server might be a bit too abstract to grasp right now if you’ve never encountered it before, so let’s just walk through it instead.
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