Laminas

Laminas Project (formerly Zend Framework or ZF) is an open source, object-oriented web application framework implemented in PHP 7 and licensed under the New BSD License.[3] The framework is basically a collection of professional PHP[4]-based packages.[5] The framework uses various packages by the use of Composer as part of its package dependency managers; some of them are PHPUnit for testing all packages, Travis CI for continuous Integration Services. Laminas provides to users a support of the model–view–controller (MVC) in combination with Front Controller solution.[6] MVC implementation in Laminas has five main areas. The router and dispatcher functions to decide which controller to run based on data from URL, and controller functions in combination with the model and view to develop and create the final web page.[5]

Not to be confused with Zend Engine.
Laminas
Developer(s)Laminas Project
RepositoryLaminas Repository

Mezzio Repository

Laminas API Tools Repository
Written inPHP
Operating systemCross-platform
LicenseNew BSD license
Websitegetlaminas.org
Zend Framework
Developer(s)Zend Technologies
Initial releaseMarch 3, 2006 (2006-03-03)[1]
Final release
3.0.0[2] / June 28, 2016 (2016-06-28)
RepositoryZend Repository
Written inPHP 7
Operating systemCross-platform
LicenseNew BSD license
Websiteframework.zend.com

On 17 April 2019 it was announced[7] that the framework is transitioning into an open source project hosted by the Linux Foundation to be known as Laminas.

License

Laminas is licensed under the Open Source Initiative (OSI)-approved New BSD License. All new contributions are required to be accompanied with Developer Certificate of Origin affirmation.[8]

Zend Framework also licensed under New BSD License. For ZF1 all code contributors were required to sign a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) based on the Apache Software Foundation’s CLA. The licensing and contribution policies were established to prevent intellectual property issues for commercial ZF users, according to Zend's Andi Gutmans.[9] ZF2 and later is CLA free.[10]

Components and versioning

Laminas Project follows semantic versioning. Framework components are versioned independently and released as separate Composer packages. Dependencies between framework components are declared as Composer dependencies using semantic versioning ranges.

Prior to Zend Framework version 2.5 all components shared the same version. Starting with Zend Framework version 2.5, components were split into independently versioned packages and zendframework/zendframework converted into a Composer meta-package.[11] Framework components introduced after the split started at version 1.0 while existing components continued from 2.5. New components were not added to the meta-package and meta-package itself was discontinued after 3.0.0 release.

Zend Framework 3 was the last release before framework wide versioning was discontinued.[12] In Zend Framework 3 major versions of individual components did not match framework version anymore and caused confusion. Some components such as zend-mvc and zend-servicemanager received matching major version release but other remained on version 2 while newly introduced zend-diactoros, zend-stratigility and zend-expressive were at major version 1.

Laminas Project does not carry a single framework version. Components transitioned from Zend Framework continued with existing versions and had all past releases migrated from their counterparts. zendframework/zendframework meta-package does not have a counterpart in Laminas.

Laminas includes following components:[13]

Component Description
Authentication Authenticate users via a variety of adapters, and provide the authenticated identity to your application.
Barcode Programmatically create and render barcodes as images or in PDFs.
Cache Caching implementation with a variety of storage options, as well as codified caching strategies for callbacks, classes, and output.
Captcha Generate and validate CAPTCHAs using Figlets, images, ReCaptcha, and more.
Code Extensions to the PHP Reflection API, static code scanning, and code generation.
Component Installer Composer plugin for injecting modules and configuration providers into application configuration.
Config Read and write configuration files.
Config Aggregator Aggregate and merge configuration from a variety of sources.
Console Build console applications using getopt syntax or routing, complete with prompts
Crypt Strong cryptography tools and password hashing.
DB Database abstraction layer, SQL abstraction, result set abstraction, and RowDataGateway and TableDataGateway implementations.
Debug Safely dump debug information to HTML.
DI Automated dependency injection and instance manager.
Diactoros PSR-7 HTTP message implementations.
DOM Query HTML and XML documents using XPath or CSS selectors.
Escaper Securely and safely escape HTML, HTML attributes, JavaScript, CSS, and URLs.
EventManager Implement events, signal slots, aspects, and observers!
Expressive PSR-7 middleware in minutes.
Feed Consume and generate Atom and RSS feeds, and interact with Pubsubhubbub.
File Locate PHP classfiles.
Filter Programmatically filter and normalize data and files.
Form Validate and display simple and complex forms, casting forms to business objects and vice versa.
HAL for PSR-7 Hypertext Application Language (HAL) for PSR-7.
HTTP HTTP message and header abstractions, and HTTP client implementation. (Not a PSR-7 implementation.)
Hydrator Serialize objects to arrays, and vice versa.
InputFilter Normalize and validate input sets from the web, APIs, the CLI, and more, including files.
Internationalization Provide translations for your application, and filter and validate internationalized values.
JSON De/Serialize JSON in PHP, including JavaScript expressions.
JSON-RPC Server JSON-RPC implementation for PHP.
LDAP Perform LDAP operations, including binding, searching and modifying entries in an LDAP directory.
Loader Autoloading and plugin loading strategies.
Log Robust, composite logger with filtering, formatting, and PSR-3 support.
Mail Parse, create, store, and send email messages, using a variety of storage and transport protocols.
Math Create cryptographically secure pseudo-random numbers, and manage big integers.
Memory Manage data in an environment with limited memory.
MIME Create and parse MIME messages and parts.
Module Manager Modular application system for zend-mvc applications.
MVC Laminas's event-driven MVC layer, including MVC Applications, Controllers, and Plugins.
MVC-Console integration Integration between zend-mvc and zend-console.
MVC-i18n integration Integration between zend-mvc and zend-i18n.
fileprg() plugin Post/Redirect/Get plugin with file upload handling for zend-mvc controllers.
flashmessenger() plugin Plugin for creating and exposing flash messages via zend-mvc controllers.
identity() plugin Plugin for retrieving the current authenticated identity within zend-mvc controllers.
prg() plugin Post/Redirect/Get plugin for zend-mvc controllers.
Navigation Manage trees of pointers to web pages in order to build navigation systems.
Paginator Paginate collections of data from arbitrary sources.
ACL Create, manage, and query access control lists.
RBAC Provide and query Role-Based Access Controls for your application.
Problem Details PSR-7 Problem Details for HTTP API responses and middleware.
ProgressBar Create and update progress bars in different environments.
PSR-7 Bridge PSR-7 <-> zend-http message conversions.
Router Flexible routing system for HTTP and console applications.
Serializer Serialize and deserialize PHP structures to a variety of representations.
Server Create Reflection-based RPC servers.
ServiceManager Factory-Driven Dependency Injection Container
ServiceManager-Di integration zend-di integration for zend-servicemanager
Session Object-oriented interface to PHP sessions and storage.
SOAP Create, serve, and access SOAP applications, and parse and generate WSDL.
Stdlib SPL extensions, array utilities, error handlers, and more.
Stratigility PSR-7 middleware foundation for building and dispatching middleware pipelines.
Tag Manipulate and weight taggable items, and create tag clouds.
Test Tools to facilitate unit testing of zend-mvc applications.
Text Create FIGlets and text-based tables.
URI Object oriented interface to URIs, with facilities for validation.
Validator Validation classes for a wide range of domains, and the ability to chain validators to create complex validation criteria.
View Flexible view layer supporting and providing multiple view layers, helpers, and more.
XML-RPC Fully featured XML-RPC server and client implementations.
XML2JSON Convert XML documents to JSON.

Installation

Officially supported install method is via Composer package manager.

Laminas provides meta-package that includes 61 component but recommended way is to install required framework components individually. Composer will resolve and install all additional dependencies.

For instance, if you need MVC package, you can install with the following command:

$ composer require zendframework/zend-mvc

Full list of components is available in Zend Framework documentation.[13]

Anatomy of the framework

Laminas follows configuration-over-convention approach and does not impose any particular application structure. Skeleton applications for zend-mvc and zend-expressive are available and provide everything necessary to run applications and to serve as a good starting point.

Zend Technologies, co-founded by PHP core contributors Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski, was the original corporate sponsor of Zend Framework.[14] Technology partners include IBM,[15] Google,[16] Microsoft,[17] Adobe Systems,[18] and StrikeIron.[19]

Features

Laminas features include:[20]

Development of applications

Laminas applications can run on any PHP stack that fulfills the technical requirements. Zend Technologies provides a PHP stack, Zend Server (or Zend Server Community Edition), which is advertised to be optimized for running Laminas applications. Zend Server includes Zend Framework in its installers, along with PHP and all required extensions. According to Zend Technologies, Zend Server provides improved performance for PHP and especially Zend Framework applications through opcode acceleration and several caching capabilities, and includes application monitoring and diagnostics facilities.[23] Zend Studio is an IDE that includes features specifically to integrate with Zend Framework. It provides an MVC view, MVC code generation based on Zend_Tool (a component of the Zend Framework), a code formatter, code completion, parameter assist, and more.[24] Zend Studio is not free software, whereas the Zend Framework and Zend Server Community Edition are free. Zend Server is compatible with common debugging tools such as Xdebug. Other developers may want to use a different PHP stack and another IDE such as Eclipse PDT which works well together with Zend Server. A pre configured, free version of Eclipse PDT with Zend Debug is available on the Zend web site.

Code, documentation, and test standards

Code contributions to Laminas are subject to rigorous code, documentation, and test standards. All code must meet project coding standards and unit tests must reach 80% code coverage before the corresponding code may be moved to the release branch.[25]

Simple cloud API
Main article: Simple Cloud API

On September 22, 2009, Zend Technologies announced[26] that it would be working with technology partners including Microsoft, IBM, Rackspace, Nirvanix, and GoGrid along with the Zend Framework community to develop a common API to cloud application services called the Simple Cloud API. This project is part of Zend Framework and will be hosted on the Zend Framework website,[27] but a separate site called simplecloud.org[28] has been launched to discuss and download the most current versions of the API. The Simple Cloud API and several Cloud Services are included in Zend Framework. The adapters to popular cloud services have reached production quality.

Current development

Zend Framework 3.0 was released on June 28, 2016. It includes new components like a JSON RPC server, a XML to JSON converter, PSR-7 functionality, and compatibility with PHP 7. Zend Framework 3.0 runs up to 4 times faster than Zend Framework 2, and the packages have been decoupled to allow for greater reuse.[12] The contributors of Zend Framework are actively encouraging the use of Zend Framework version 3.x. The stated end of life for Zend Framework 1 is 2016-09-28, and for Zend Framework 2 is 2018-03-31. The first development release of Zend Framework 2.0 was released on August 6, 2010.[29] Changes made in this release were the removal of require_once statements, migration to PHP 5.3 namespaces, a refactored test suite, a rewritten Zend\Session, and the addition of the new Zend\Stdlib. The second development release was on November 3, 2010.[30] The first stable release of Zend Framework 2.0 was released 5 September 2012.[31]

See also

References
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  2. "zendframework/zendframework". GitHub. Retrieved May 17, 2017.
  3. "Introduction to Zend Framework". ZF Programmer's Reference Guide. Archived from the original on 2009-02-11. Retrieved 2009-02-12.
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  8. "Technical Charter (the "Charter") for Laminas Project a Series of LF Projects, LLC". GitHub.
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  10. "Contributor Guide (ZF v1)".
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  14. "History of PHP and related projects". The PHP Group. Retrieved 2009-02-11.
  15. LaMonica, Martin (2005-02-25). "IBM backs open-source Web software". cnet.com. Retrieved 2009-02-11.
  16. Kernel, Sean Michael (2006-12-20). "Google Data Joins PHP Zend Framework". internetnews.com. Retrieved 2009-02-11.
  17. Krill, Paul (2006-10-31). "Microsoft, Zend boost PHP for Windows". infoworld.com. Retrieved 2009-02-11.
  18. Potter, Mike (2014-05-21). "Adobe Contributing AMF Support to Zend Framework". The Official Flex Team Blog. Archived from the original on 2009-02-07. Retrieved 2009-02-11.
  19. "StrikeIron Featured Partners". Retrieved 2009-02-11.
  20. "About Zend Framework". Archived from the original on 2009-02-11. Retrieved 2009-02-11.
  21. Why to Use Zend Framework? By SuntecOSS, Retrieved, April 21st, 2016
  22. Zend’s Apigility, an Open Source API Builder for Developing Quality APIs By SuntecOSS, Retrieved, May 19th, 2016
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  24. "Download Zend Studio - IDE, PHP profiler, mobile, unit testing & more". www.Zend.com. Archived from the original on June 1, 2017. Retrieved May 17, 2017.
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  26. "Simple Cloud API Press Release". Archived from the original on December 1, 2009. Retrieved 2009-11-05.
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