With over more than 200,000 downloads in a year by Zend Framework for writing Web application in PHP could be an enterprise challenger to Java and .NET. Further PHP community aims that the trend continues this week as well with Zend Framework 0.6, a new version of platform, which has number of improvements over its predecessor.

This upgrade includes features like bug fixing and new authentication module, and on that Google's GData API for framework would be just like a crown jewel. GData has both Atom 1.0 and RSS 2.0 XML syndication system to read and write data to the Web for mashups and even other data manipulations. With GData, PHP Framework could be easier to create mashups and it can be better utilized.

"Google has been working with Zend for over a year now to make this component happen," Zend co-founder Andi Gutmans stated. Further Gutmans said that Zend Framework 0.6 implements GData in the top level Zend_GData component and not under Zend_Service.

There is no doubt that PHP's widely popular due to its ease-of-use and cross-platform support, which has somewhat taken a toll on Java and .NET," Gutmans said.

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