Since we are talking about designing and architecting a enterprise class web based / cloud based application it is understood that the application has to be built from ground up and a lot of custom business logic need to be incorporated within the application. This demands using a Framework for development.

Also I believe using a MVC based Framework over a non MVC one has its own benefits especially when it comes to large enterprise applications. I clearly see some distinguishing benefits of using a MVC pattern based framework like

- In a MVC framework the business logic and GUI portions can be handled as two independent verticals without any co-ordination hassles. This further results in a robust development
- MVC Framework renders development by breaking the application into three different components namely Model, View and Controller which helps in creating and maintaining each component in isolation.

Some of the most popular MVC based open source frameworks available are

Zend Framework
Codeignitor Framework
Cake PHP Framework
Symfony Framework
Yii Framework
Of all the above listed popular open source MVC Frameworks, Zend Framework is the most popular and widely used.

Zend is an object oriented, open source web applications development framework. Zend is widely used to develop secure, reliable and scalable web applications. It has huge extensible coding library with all helpful components like UI design patterns, MVC implementation which supports PHP templates and layouts. Zend Framework supports all databases like MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL etc.

Advantages of using Zend Framework

• Zend PHP based Framework being open source is cost effective and provides rapid web development solutions
• It supports all the features of the latest version of PHP including PHP 5
• Completely Object Oriented
• Zend has a rich library of functions which are helpful in dynamic website development
• Highly developer friendly because it is easy to use and has flexible architecture

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