Downloading Zend Framework 2 and finding its documentation
Let's find out where to get all the essential literature on the Zend Framework.
Finding Zend Framework 2
The main website of Zend Framework 2 is http://framework.zend.com and always holds the most updated information on Zend Framework 2. We can easily download the framework from there, as well as some packages, for example the framework including the Zend Server, or the minimal package of Zend Framework.
Downloading only the framework itself, without any context like the skeleton application is a great way of starting an application from scratch without any of the clutter that comes with the default skeleton.
Coding in the phpcloud
A new toy made by Zend that is currently still in beta level is the phpcloud, which allows developers to create a fast reliable development environment for developers to develop on. One of the features of using the phpcloud is that it not only comes with Zend Framework 2, but also runs on the Zend Server which allows spectacular debugging capabilities and application deployment. At the moment sign up for the phpcloud is free, but we can assume that this will change in the future. How this will turn out, however, is not known to us yet.
The documentation and getting started guide
The Zend Framework 2 documentation is luckily much more reliable than the original Zend Framework documentation (which is a good thing, trust me). Zend really committed to creating a framework that is well documented and has an open contribution that is powered by a strong community and tools like Github (instead of Subversion as in the original framework). The documentation and getting started guide can both be found under the Learn menu option on the main Zend Framework 2 website.
See also
The main Zend Framework 2 website found at http://framework.zend.com
The Zend Framework 2 Coding Standards found at http://framework.zend.com/wiki/x/yQCvAg
The latest Zend Framework 2 Documentation PDF found at https://media.readthedocs.org/pdf/zf2/latest/zf2.pdf
The Zend Framework 2 Security RSS Feed found at http://framework.zend.com/security/feed/
The Zend Framework 2 Blog RSS Feed found at http://framework.zend.com/blog/feed-rss.xml
