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Bundled StrikeIron Services for Zend Framework 1.0

July 2, 2007. Zend, the PHP company, announces that StrikeIron Web Services have been bundled within its Zend Framework 1.0. The three services bundled into Zend Framework are: ZIP Code Information, U.S. Address Verification and Sales & Use Tax Basic. Each service is made available as a convenient PHP wrapper class.

In support of the bundled services, the Zend community has created a reference manual explaining how to add StrikeIron services into a PHP 5 application. Specifically, it provides the code required to access the three StrikeIron services.

Figure 1. Zend Framework 1.0

There's also an Advanced Article that shows how to use StrikeIron web services without a bundled service, using getService().

Zend Framework 1.0 was released in July, 2007 and enjoys broad community support. We encourage you to try the StrikeIron bundles service and provide feedback about your experience.

About Zend Framework 1.0

Zend Framework is based on simplicity, object-oriented best practices and a lightweight architecture that enables faster development of secure, reliable and highly interactive Web applications. Its components include:

MVC application framework - Zend Framework’s model-view-controller architecture enables the separation of business logic from user interface design, providing an industry best practice for Web application development. The framework also makes AJAX programming easier with JSON support.
Database support - access multiple brands of RDBMS via a database-independent object-oriented interface. Databases supported include IBM DB2, MySQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL and SQLite.
Internationalization - Zend Framework supports advanced yet simple solutions to develop your PHP 5 Web applications for a global audience.
Web services - use convenient classes to publish and consume Web services and feeds in PHP.
- Feeds: ATOM, RSS, Google Data APIs
- Clients and Servers: REST, HTTP, XML-RPC
- Services: Integrate a multitude of industry Web services, including APIs from major providers like Amazon, Yahoo!, and StrikeIron
Foundation Framework services - Zend Framework provides many other classes to make common application development tasks quick and easy. For example, solutions for email, sessions, authentication, logging, caching, filtering input, and others are included.

The Zend Framework 1.0 was released in July 2007. You can Download it here.