What id ZEND?

What is ZEND. Why it has anything to do with programming PHP?

ZEND is the company formed by the authors of PHP. Look at
http://www.zend.com/company/overview.php for an overview.

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"nntp" <nntp@alexa.com> wrote in message
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> What is ZEND. Why it has anything to do with programming PHP?
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> ZEND is the company formed by the authors of PHP. Look at[color=blue]
> http://www.zend.com/company/overview.php for an overview.
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still don't understand it. do i have to install zend if i install php?
is zend to php the same as activestate to perl or mod_perl to perl.
in otherwords. is zend a compiled version of php or a performace enhancement
of php?

nntp wrote:
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>> ZEND is the company formed by the authors of PHP. Look at
>> http://www.zend.com/company/overview.php for an overview.[/color]
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> still don't understand it. do i have to install zend if i install php?
> is zend to php the same as activestate to perl or mod_perl to perl.
> in otherwords. is zend a compiled version of php or a performace
> enhancement of php?[/color]

Zend is a company.

They develop the Zend engine which forms the base of PHP. You do not
need to install this separately as it is part of PHP.

They also develop a whole bunch of other stuff, including an IDE, an
encoder, an optimizer etc. You do not need any of these to develop or
run PHP.

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