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Laminas

Laminas is an open-source PHP framework and collection of components used for building web applications and services. It represents the continuation of Zend Framework, transitioned to a community-driven project in the mid-2010s. The Laminas Project publishes a set of interoperable PHP libraries that can be used together as a full-stack framework or individually within other projects.

The core of Laminas is its modular architecture: a full-stack MVC framework that handles routing, controllers,

Development emphasizes enterprise needs, performance, security, and maintainability. It supports modern PHP versions and integrates with

Laminas can be used as a full framework or by adopting individual components to augment existing projects.

and
views,
complemented
by
a
broad
ecosystem
of
components
for
authentication,
authorization,
caching,
logging,
database
access,
form
handling,
input
validation,
hydrators,
and
more.
Components
are
designed
to
be
decoupled
and
reusable,
and
they
are
intended
to
adhere
to
PHP
Standards
Recommendations
(PSR)
and
to
work
with
Composer
for
installation
and
updates.
common
server
environments.
The
project
is
maintained
by
a
community
of
contributors
and
the
Laminas
Organization,
with
releases
that
provide
feature
updates
and
bug
fixes.
It
competes
with
other
PHP
frameworks
such
as
Symfony
and
Laravel,
being
favored
by
teams
that
value
modularity,
long-term
support,
and
a
robust
set
of
enterprise-grade
libraries.
Documentation
and
resources
are
available
on
the
official
Laminas
website
and
its
GitHub
repository.