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Introducing Laminas for PHP Applications

In April 2019, the Linux Foundation announced that it was launching a new project: Laminas. This was actually the new name for a project that had existed since 2006, Zend Framework. From that moment on, the PHP framework, which already had 400 million installs, would have a vendor-neutral home. But Zend Technologies has not abandoned the product that bears its name for several years. Zend continues to provide corporate support, which includes mission-critical support, enterprise adapter extensions, long-term support, and on-demand guidance from PHP experts.

This chapter presents the evolution of the architecture of Zend Framework until its change to Laminas and discusses the lessons learned. In this chapter, you will gain an understanding of why the framework team took some decisions instead of others during its evolution. These subjects are the motivation for a developer to use a framework, and Laminas is presented as one option...