Zenyan is a lightweight PHP web application framework that is simpler and more flexible than other frameworks. It avoids excessive coupling and architectural restraints. Zenyan uses PHP, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML and CSS. It includes components like CKEditor, Sparkline charts, and JQZoom image viewing. The core elements of Zenyan that enable application development are login and security, easy data access through SQL statements, and logging to files or pages for debugging. Zenyan aims to make data access fast and able to connect to multiple databases through a simple interface for reading and writing SQL.