Jackson Miller has posted his own look at the thing that is (or will be) the Zend Framework on his blog today.

A few days ago Zend announced they are backing a new PHP web application framework. It is going to take advantage of the new features in PHP5 and will provide similar functionality for developers as Ruby on Rails, .NET, or Spring. Kudos to Zend for acknowledging a glaring hole in PHP. Too bad there is absolutely no substance as of yet.

As someone who has written a fair amount of PHP I have been forced to develop my own "framework". However, I have no desire to maintain a framework. I want to develop large and complex apps writing as little code as possible. So I welcome with open arms the idea of a Zend Application Framework.

He also notes, thought, that it seems less like this was a thought-out effort (no code, not even pseudo-code, no call for participation, etc) and more like Zend and the other companies saying "ya know, PHP really should have a framework before we get all of this big stuff started...I know! Let's announce one!"

Interesting...