Zend Framework vs ThinkPhp

Overview

Zend Framework

Stacks262

Followers215

Votes48

ThinkPhp

Stacks41

Followers25

Votes0

Zend Framework vs ThinkPhp: What are the differences?

What is Zend Framework? An open source, object-oriented web application framework implemented in PHP 5. It is an open source framework for developing web applications and services using PHP 5.3+. It uses 100% object-oriented code and utilizes most of the new features of namely namespaces, late static binding, lambda functions and closures.

What is ThinkPhp? A web application development framework based on PHP. It focuses on rapid development of enterprise projects and is very popular in China where over 40,000 servers run it.

Zend Framework and ThinkPhp can be categorized as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.

Some of the features offered by Zend Framework are:

Pure object oriented web application framework
Advanced MVC implementation
Supports multi databases including PostgreSQL, SQLite etc

On the other hand, ThinkPhp provides the following key features:

Quick
Simple
Object-oriented

Zend Framework is an open source tool with 5.73K GitHub stars and 2.85K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Zend Framework's open source repository on GitHub.

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Detailed Comparison

Zend Framework	ThinkPhp
It is an open source framework for developing web applications and services using PHP 5.3+. It uses 100% object-oriented code and utilizes most of the new features of namely namespaces, late static binding, lambda functions and closures.	It focuses on rapid development of enterprise projects and is very popular in China where over 40,000 servers run it
Pure object oriented web application framework; Advanced MVC implementation; Supports multi databases including PostgreSQL, SQLite etc; Simple cloud API; Session management; Data encryption; Flexible URI Routing; Zend provides RESTful API development support.	Quick; Simple; Object-oriented
Statistics
Stacks 262	Stacks 41
Followers 215	Followers 25
Votes 48	Votes 0
Pros & Cons
Pros 25 Open source 11 Community 4 Fast 3 Scalable 2 Many library	No community feedback yet
Integrations
Expressive PHP GitHub Webex	GitHub PHP CakePHP

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