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CHAPTER 24 • INTRODUCING THE ZEND FRAMEWORKwww.it-ebooks.infoComponentZend_FilterZend_GdataZend_HTTP_ClientZend_JsonZend_LogZend_MailZend_MimeZend_PdfZend_Search_LuceneZend_Service_AmazonZend_Service_FlickrZend_Service_YahooZend_ViewZend_XmlRpcPurposeFacilitates the filtering and validation of data, including enforcing proper syntaxfor commonplace values such as e-mail addresses, credit card numbers, dates(according to ISO 8601 format), and phone numbers.Provides an interface to several of Google’s services, including Google Blogger,Google Calendar, and Google Notebook.Performs HTTP requests. Presently capable of executing GET, POST, PUT, andDELETE requests.Facilitates interaction between JavaScript and PHP by serializing PHP data toJSON (JavaScript Object Notation) and vice versa. See www.json.org for moreinformation about JSON.Facilitates application logging.Sends text and MIME-compliant e-mail.Parses MIME messages.Creates PDF documents.Facilitates search engine development using the Lucene library.Interacts with the Amazon Web Services API.Interacts with the Flickr Web Services API.Interacts with the Yahoo! Web Services API.Manages the framework’s view component.Provides support for consuming and serving XML-RPC implementations.Installing the Zend FrameworkProceed to http://framework.zend.com/download/latest to download the latest stable version of theZend Framework. There you’ll be able to download the framework in both zip and tar.gz formats.Choose whichever option is most convenient for you, uncompress the code if you choose one of theformer options, and move the library/ directory to a location residing somewhere within the pathdefined by your PHP installation’s includes_path configuration directive. Only this library/ directory isrelevant, so you can disregard all other files in the uncompressed package.■ Caution The Zend Framework requires PHP 5.2.4 or newer.462