The document introduces the Zend Framework. It discusses that the framework is a modular collection of PHP classes based on PHP 5 best practices. It strives to provide an industry-leading framework for PHP application development and simplify common tasks. Key features of the framework include an MVC structure, input filtering, mail sending, searching and more. The framework is open source and licensed permissively to allow for any use.

1. Introducing: Zend Framework John Coggeshall

11. Zend Framework from 10,000 feet

22. Input Filtering

26. Sending HTML mail is now really easy

30. Adding documents to the index

32. Questions?