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Application development
with PHP
Chapter 3.
The PHP language has been a darling of the open source software development
community for years for reasons such as performance, the power of the
language itself, and ease of use. Now, PHP language with the frameworks being
built around it, seems to be ready for enterprise software development. This
chapter provides you concept and hands-on with Zend Framework for building
enterprise Web applications that require database and application integration
support. When deciding to build an On Demand
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Web application, there are
many products and technologies that you can use. In most of the cases, you
need to choose the following:
Web server software
An operating system
A database management system
A programming or scripting language
In this chapter, we do not address the hardware, operating system, or Web
server software much. In fact, we do not need to. One of the strengths of PHP is
that it is available on all of today's popular operating systems, including many
versions of UNIX and Linux operating systems. Similarly, IBM's flagship
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An On Demand Business is an enterprise whose business processes, integrated end-to-end across
the company and with key partners, suppliers and customers, can respond with flexibility and
speed to customer demand, market opportunity, or external threat.
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