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Adroit
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a lightweight PHP 5 MVC frameworkhttp://adroit.selfcontained.us/
Adroit provides a lot for how lightweight it is. Rapid development Eliminate repetitive tasks Familiar MVC architecture Object Oriented Simple DB persistence Utilizes Smarty Template Engine Simple and Manageable ajax development ...
Agavi
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the clouds are gatheringhttp://www.agavi.org/
Derived from Mojavi. ...
AgilePHP
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RAD, annotations, interceptors, remoting, soap & rest web services, XSLThttp://sourceforge.net/projects/agilephp/
PHP Rapid Application Development framework featuring MVC, ORM, annotations, interceptors, remoting, soap & rest web services, caching, logging, identity/role mgmt, i18n, XSLT code generation, AJAX/WebSocket PHPUnit integration and much more. ...
Agile Toolkit
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Agile Toolkit is a high-performance PHP framework for UI development with jQuery.http://agiletoolkit.org/
Interactive Introduction: http://agiletoolkit.org/intro ...
Akelos
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"The pragmatic way to get Productive on PHP"http://www.akelos.org/
straight from the features page: The Akelos PHP Framework implements many features from Ruby on Rails and some others targeted to coding multilingual applications which need to be distributed in a simple manner. Akelos Main Goals Improve developer happiness. Speed up the creation of compl ...
Alloy
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Lightweight Hierarchical MVC PHP Frameworkhttp://alloyframework.org/
<li> Lightweight <li> Modular organization <li> Hierarchical MVC (HMVC) <li> REST-centered <li> Command line ready <li> PHP 5.3.2+ ...
Ambivalence
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http://amb.sourceforge.net/
Ambivalence is a Model-View-Controller framework for PHP web development. The initial version, based on the Java-based Maverick project, offers clean MVC separation and an XML sitemap, plus a service to authenticate and enforce access control. ...
Adventure PHP Framework
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APF is a utility to implement object oriented and generic PHP web applicationshttp://adventure-php-framework.org/Page/001-Home
The Adventure PHP Framework (APF) understands itself as a utility to implement object oriented and generic PHP web applications. It supports the developer in creating programs in compliance with approved software design patterns. Its code base already has answers to many day-to-day problems. The fra ...
ATK framework (Achievo)
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target business applications, small amounts of codehttp://www.atk-framework.com/
Achievo ATK is an object oriented Web Application Framework, written in PHP. It is targeted at developers who wish to focus on business logic, instead of coding HTML. Where other application frameworks mainly provide a large set of utility classes, ATK provides a complete framework that requires ...
AgileToolKit4 (AModules3)
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focuses on quick development, commercial web software, what any modern framework doeshttp://blog.atk4.com/
Agile Toolkit is a PHP5 library for rapid development of Business Web Applications. Toolkit promotes seamless re-use of previously developed code and use of Agile Software Development practices. Framework allows: To write a simple web applications within days. Use optional-MVC approach in develop ...
Aura
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renamed Solar 2.0 frameworkhttp://auraphp.github.com/
The Aura project is essentially the second major version of Solar, reimagined and rewritten as a library collection with dependency injection instead of a framework with service location. The name change from Solar to Aura is to reduce confusion with the Apache Solr project. In a world of monolit ...
Banshee
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PHP website framework, which aims at to be secure, fast and easy to use.http://www.banshee-php.org/
Banshee is a PHP website framework, which aims at to be secure, fast and easy to use. It uses a Model-View-Control architecture (XSLT for the views). Although it was designed to use MySQL as the database, other database applications can be used as well with only little effort. Ready-to-use module ...
BareBones-MVC
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a one-file, no-configuration, MVC framework for PHP5http://code.google.com/p/barebonesmvc-php/
Weighing in at just 60 lines of code (excluding comments), the BareBones MVC framework for PHP5 is perfect for: small-to-medium websites; in other words, the vast majority, i.e. shared hosting sites without htaccess and/or mod_rewrite capabilities as a foundation for PHP software such as CMS, we ...
Blueshoes
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comprehensivehttp://www.blueshoes.org/
BlueShoes is a comprehensive application framework and content management system. It is written in the widely used web-scripting language PHP. BlueShoes offers excellent support for the popular MySQL database as well as support for Oracle and MSSQL. BlueShoes provides developers with real-wo ...
Breeze
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micro framework for routing with procedural API lookhttp://github.com/whatthejeff/breeze#readme
Routes The routing API involves associating HTTP requests with PHP functions. For example, the following code would print hello world if a GET request were made for /. get('/', function(){ echo 'Hello World!'; }); # named matches get(';^/hello/(?<name>\w+)$;', function($app, $p ...
Caffeine
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Lite-weight and small development layer is "PHP To Go"http://code.google.com/p/caffeine-php/
What is Caffeine? Caffeine is a lite-weight PHP 4 and PHP 5 compatible framework that provides a small development layer, without getting in the way of the programmer. It's "PHP To Go"! Caffeine's core can be expanded by using Libraries. Libraries are a collection of PHP Classes or ...
CakePHP
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rapidly develop robust web applicationshttp://cakephp.org/
CakePHP is a rapid development framework for PHP that provides an extensible architecture for developing, maintaining, and deploying applications. Using commonly known design patterns like MVC and ORM within the convention over configuration paradigm, CakePHP reduces development costs and helps deve ...
CodeIgniter
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widespread, small footprint but encompassing features , good documentationhttp://codeigniter.com/
Let's try it: Hello World! Let's create a simple controller so you can see it in action. Using your text editor, create a file called blog.php, and put the following code in it: class Blog extends Controller { function index() { echo 'Hello World!'; } } Template Parser Class T ...
Ding
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name "Ding" due to using dependency injection (DI)http://marcelog.github.com/Ding/
Ding is a PHP framework that provides dependency injection (by Setter, Constructor, and Method), Aspect Oriented Programming, XML, YAML, Events support, and some JSR 250/330 annotations as bean definition providers, lightweight, can be deployed as a PHAR file, simple, and quick MVC, syslog, TCP clie ...
Dingo
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a RAD frameworkhttp://www.dingoframework.com/
Dingo allows you to develop feature rich websites and web applications quickly and efficiently. It is lean when compared to other frameworks of its ability. the actual framework is only about 100KB in size not compressed. Flexibility Dingo follows the KISS ideology,. ...
DIY
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It is an open-source web application framework based on object-oriented PHP 5, MySQL, and XSLT. Designed following MVC architecture and REST principles.http://sourceforge.net/projects/diy-framework/
It is an open-source lightweight web application framework based on object-oriented PHP 5, MySQL, and XSLT. It is fully object-oriented and designed following the MVC architecture and REST design principles. The idea behind it is not to reinvent the wheel but instead to combine existing and proven t ...
DooPHP
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one of the fastesthttp://doophp.com/
Doo is a PHP framework designed to give you a delightful development experience without slowing down you applications like most frameworks does. Doo tries to be as lightweight as possible and has a small source code footprint. The creator actually benchmarked various possible approaches when buildin ...
DQER
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RAD with focus on securityhttp://code.google.com/p/dqer/
Most php frameworks does not provide adequate level of RAD and as result development of applications (or plug-ins) become unnecessarily time consuming, better say endless routine process. We aim to change that with DQER! Features Here is a short feature list of the DQER RAD PHP framework: ...
DragonPHP
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MVC 2 architecturehttp://www.dragonphp.com/
Key Features Request Dispatcher Session Management Page Controller Role-Based Access Control Security Common Logger Validator (i.e. Form Validation) Dynamic Templating Modules Database Access ...
DynaPort Lite X
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DynaPort Lite X is a simple yet powerful PHP framework, focused on making it easier to build web sites using PHP.https://bitbucket.org/pnm123/dynaport-lite-x/
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DynaPort X
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DynaPort X is a simple yet powerful PHP framework which follows MVC architecture to help make PHP application in larger format.https://github.com/pnm1231/DynaPort-X
This is currently a private repo and will be released to the public pretty soon. ...
EasyPhpApp
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facilitate form/CRUD applicationshttp://code.google.com/p/easyphpapp/
Main features Clean but simple MVC approach : the framework uses structured url (routes) to target modules (your application classes) and actions (methods of the classes) Strong but simple security layer : build on top of Zend_Auth and Zend_Acl Can be HTML free : build your presentation only wi ...
Elefant
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Refreshingly simple PHP web framework and CMS.http://www.elefantcms.com/
Elefant is a minimalist web framework that includes an optional but full-featured content management system as well. Elefant has a low learning curve, while still encouraging best practices, strong security, and clean separation of logic and presentation. It's also very fast and has a very low memor ...
ELF
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small footprinthttp://code.google.com/p/elf-php/
Extra Light php Framework is a php framework with a very small footprint, built on Model-View-Controller architecture. This framework provides a quick starting point, permitting the developer to build the application in he's own way. Features ActiveRecord (docs: http://www.phpactiverecord.org/ ...
Emergence
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versioned virtual development environment and MVC frameworkhttp://emr.ge/
Emergence is an open source PHP framework which maintains a virtual directory structure for each site. This allows Emergence websites to inherit each other. For this reason Emergence is a two part framework. First you must install the Emergence Kernel. After doing so you will configure a websi ...
evoCore
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heart of b2evolution blog softwarehttp://evocore.net/
The evoCore framework distinguishes itself by the fact it doesn't require PHP 5 to work! That's right, as of early 2010, evoCore will still work perfectly under PHP 4 in order to guarantee your applications can be hosted on virtually any web hosting provider, including low cost cheap web hosting pla ...
eZ Components
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Enterprise-Ready General-Purpose PHP Libraryhttp://ez.no/ezcomponents
pretty high-level ...
Faster
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minimalist M, V, C setuphttps://github.com/volomike/faster
It is faster. It will take you less time to learn it, less time to install it, less time to code with it, and less time to move a project from one server to another. Plus, it does a fine job of reducing spaghetti code. For this reason, we hope that far less people shy away from an MVC fram ...
Fat-Free Framework
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lightweight 5.3+, simple language, the only framework with bandwidth throttling and DoS monitoringhttp://fatfree.sourceforge.net/
Fat-Free Framework is a powerful yet easy-to-use PHP micro-framework designed to help you build dynamic and robust Web applications - fast! Condensed in a single 55KB file, F3 gives you solid foundation, a mature code base, and a no-nonsense approach to writing Web applications. Under the hood is ...
Fitzgerald
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small Sinatra-clonehttp://autonomousmachine.com/2008/11/21/fitzgerald-a-sinatra-clone-in-php
Small routing framework, hosted on github http://github.com/jim/fitzgerald ...
Flourish
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Flourish is a PHP unframework — a general-purpose, object-oriented library.http://flourishlib.com/
Flourish is a package of various useful utility classes. ORM // Class to table mapping should occur before any classes are used // such as when the database is attached via fORMDatabase::attach() fORMDatabase::attach($db); fORM::mapClassToTable('User', 'user'); Templating $template = ...
FLOW3
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typo3 backend framework, very high-levelhttp://flow3.typo3.org/
FLOW3 brings new concepts to the PHP world. Domain-Driven Design, Dependency Injection and Aspect-Oriented Programming are some of them. And besides some great features we offer a new view on the "how" of software development. ...
flufPHP
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A Fast, Minimalistic, Micro Routing / Web Application Framework for PHP5; Modeled after Sinatra.http://nijikokun.github.com/fluf/
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Frostbite Framework
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A php framework for php 5.3 or newerhttps://github.com/wilson212/Frostbite-Framework
This framework is very similar to Codeignitor. The code is well documented in the files, but lacks documentation in the __docs folder. This is a very very fast framework which displays a full html template on my server in .005 seconds. It is built for php 5.3 as it uses namespacing for its class nam ...
FuelPHP
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CI/Kohana-inspired HMVC frameworkhttp://fuelphp.com/
Fuel is a simple, flexible, community driven PHP 5.3 web framework based on the best ideas of other frameworks with a fresh start. Fuel takes a different approach to many frameworks and strives to be community-driven. Lightweight, load what you need and configuration over convention. No auto ...
Fusebox
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ColdFusion originhttp://www.fusebox.org/
It is important to note that Fusebox deals primarily with the effort of wiring together view states (pages) with controller actions (form submits, etc.) and the front-end of the business-logic tier. The framework does not address creating and maintaining business logic such as database interaction o ...
Helix
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flexible customization system and tons of classeshttp://helix.sourceforge.net/
The Helix PHP Framework is a very powerful system for creating database-backed, secure, fast, reliable and robust web applications. Some key features of Helix are: Integrated security Friendly URLs Easy configuration and customization Built-in data objects Code generator ...
Horde
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general-purpose, feature packedhttp://www.horde.org/horde/
Extremely feature rich, but lacks documentation. ...
Ismo
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development ceasedhttp://ismo.bigbluehat.com/
A descriptive framework based on a very broad meaning of the word document and the ability to create a backbone for each web project on which to hang any number of web applications. Ismo 0.1.4 was released on June 14, 2004 and has some striking similarities to the Django Project. Django builds a ...
Ivy Connect
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Ivy is a PHP Application Framework, designed to connect to different data platforms using the same SQL based syntax. What's different about it compared to other frameworks is that no matter what the datasource or output - you use the same code so to expect the same resultshttp://www.ivyconnect.co.uk
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Jelix
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generichttp://jelix.org/
Jelix is an open-source PHP5 framework which help you to develop any kind of web applications: Designed for both little web sites and and huge-loaded web sites. Fully object oriented, highly modular and extensible. Made on known design pattern: MVC, DAO.. Support natively many output format: XHT ...
Jolt
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The Worlds First View-Controller Frameworkhttps://github.com/leftnode/jolt
PHP5.3 only framework, minimal, mostly routing and utility code ...
Joomla Platform
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https://github.com/joomla/joomla-platform
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joshlib
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procedural library frameworkhttp://code.google.com/p/joshlib/
This is the PHP code library that I use every day when I develop sites. Very procedural; few classes or object-oriented techniques. Easy to learn! Easy to use. This library aspires to be: efficient - should invoke no excess overhead, executed code should be as short as possible, functions over ...
Kata
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It's like CakePHP, but with less calorieshttp://code.google.com/p/kata/
Kata is a passive MVC Framework utilizing inversion-of-control and class-factory patterns. First step: Display "Hello World" Put the following code into the file controllers/main_controller.php: class MainController extends AppController { function index() { $this->setPa ...
KissMVC
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simple and minimalist MVC frameworkhttp://kissmvc.com/
KISSMVC provides 3 small classes: * The Model class is a simple ORM that works on single database tables. * The View class is a simple PHP templating system. * The Controller class lets you use friendly URLs routed though a single index.php page. KISSMVC provides a "Model" ORM c ...
knjPHPFrameWork
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A simple framework, but with PHP-GTK supporthttp://sourceforge.net/projects/knjphpframework/
More a library collection, but still a unique framewrok in that it also comes with support for PHP-GTK rendering. So technically closer to a real MVC implementation. Bonus points for being available as a APT/DPKG repository. ...
Kohana
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Kohana is an elegant HMVC PHP5 framework that provides a rich set of components for building web applications.http://kohanaframework.org/
Pretty similar to CodeIgniter from which Kohana was forked. More addons and a standard license, more convoluted directory structure. Most complete library with additional modules is located at http://kohana-modules.com ...
Kolibri
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Kolibri: The PHP5 web framework that flieshttps://launchpad.net/kolibri
- Fully Object-Oriented - Minimal configuration - Very lightweight and easily customizable - Clean URIs and customizable URI to action mapper - Flexible validation framework - Dynamic class loading - View technology freedom: XSL, Smarty or pure PHP - Automated form generation (with XSL views) ...
Konstrukt
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A HTTP-friendly framework of controllers for PHP5.http://konstrukt.dk/
Controllers are resources URI-to-controller-mapping gives your application a logical structure Routing based on logic rather than rules Nested controllers supports composite view rendering Embrace HTTP rather than hide it Enable the programmer, rather than automating Favour aggregation over ...
Kumbia
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brazilian-languagehttp://sourceforge.net/projects/kumbia/
Kumbia PHP Framework is a full-stack MVC framework written in PHP for developing database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Control pattern and other patterns as ActiveRecord and TemplateView. Optimized for PHP programmer productivity. ...
Laravel
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clean and classy frameworkhttp://laravel.com/
Laravel is a clean and classy framework for PHP web development. Freeing you from spaghetti code, Laravel helps you create wonderful applications using simple, expressive syntax. Development should be a creative experience that you enjoy, not something that is painful. Enjoy the fresh air. return R ...
lexa-tools
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Toolkit for PHP 5.3http://blog.amartynov.ru/lexa-tools-framework-for-php/
lexa-tools library is not as much a framework as a set of utililies (tools). You are free to organize the site as you’d like. No special folder structure is required. No need to declare any classes. No config files and no magic conventions. The library just arms you with a handy procedural API. ...
LightVC
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lightweight MVC framework without the modelhttp://www.lightvc.org/
LightVC is comparable to, although unlike, CakePHP, Code Igniter, symfony, Solar, and Zend Framework to name a few. It's major difference is that it does not try to be a full "Web framework" and instead tries to solve the need for an MVC that isn't coupled to other tools. ...
Limb
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Library of Interdependent Modules and Blocks, based on WACThttp://wiki.limb-project.com/
Limb consists of many reusable components and you can cherry pick the ones you need and combine them with other frameworks and libraries(e.g. Zend Framework, Symfony, PEAR, etc). ...
Limonade
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micro framework for rapid web development and prototypinghttp://www.limonade-php.net/
API: function unregister_globals() function remove_magic_quotes($array) function render_limonade_css() function render_limonade_file() function option($name = null, $values = null) function params($name_or_array_or_null = null, $value = null) function set($name = null, $values = null) ...
Lion
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emerging, reduce engineering effortshttp://www.lionframework.org/
The following list represents the most valuable features: MVC plus MVP architecture (Dual MVC) Spring-style Dependency Injection (IoC based PHP framework) Request dispatcher with Intercepting filter Powerful custom URLs rewrite engine Event-driven PHP architecture Native AJAX components Rev ...
Lisa
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http://code.google.com/p/lisaframework/
LISA is an object oriented web application framework based on PHP 5.3 and Smarty or Dwoo template engine. Older versions based on PHP 5.2. LISA follows the model view controller architecture. Version 0.2.0 or higher using namespaces, late static bindings and many of PHP's new features. Please send y ...
Lithium
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Most RAD framework for PHP 5.3+, focus on speed and flexibilityhttp://rad-dev.org/lithium/wiki/about
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Madeam
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blazingly fast for small agile teamshttp://project.madeam.com/projects/madeam
PHP MVC Framework Blazingly fast! Small codebase RESTful Routes Command Line Power! Open Source, MIT License Use with PEAR and Zend ...
Maintainable Framework
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MVC base modeled after RoRhttps://github.com/maintainable/framework#http://framework.maintainable.com/mvc/1_intro.php
The framework was developed at Maintainable Software. We also wrote the Rails for PHP Developers book and website. We've contributed to a number of other PHP projects, including The Horde Project, Zend Framework, and PHPUnit. ...
mocovi
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mocovi is the best choice when you prefer to manage and control your content with XML, you like to program your ideas with object-oriented PHP and handle the resulting output with XSLT templates.http://mocovi.de/
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Mouf
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Mouf is DI/IoC framework based on downloadable components managed per web UIhttp://mouf-php.com/
We, Mouf developers, believe something went wrong. Dependency Injection should not be about Unit Testing, and it should not require huge dependency files! Dependency Injection is about having well defined components. If you had such components, building your application should be the same as playing ...
mria
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content management functionshttp://code.google.com/p/mria/
mria is a content management framework that makes php suck less ...
Nette
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component-based, envent-driven, no documentation in english (except for the source code itself)http://nette.org/
Nette is a powerful, component-based and event-driven framework for creating web applications and services in PHP 5. Nette Framework is designed with simplicity in mind. Nette can be used with classes from Zend Framework. ...
Nibble PHP Framework
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PHP 5.3+ plug-in based mvc frameworkhttp://nibble-development.com/nibble-php-framework
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Nooku
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RAD framework for Joomlahttp://www.nooku.org/
By drastically reducing the amount of code you need to write, Nooku Framework helps you to create powerful Joomla extensions very quickly. The intuitive API, design pattern based architecture, and out-of-the-box security, leave you more time to focus on features. ...
Obullo
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global controllers (mvc2)http://obullo.com/
Obullo is a Lightweight MVC based Php5 Framework for the PHP Coders who need a simple web toolkit to create full-featured fast web applications. It focuses on being simplicity , readability , performance and writing speed , well documented and easy to use, while solving problems intrinsic to web dev ...
Openbiz Cubi
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help you quickly build business web applications with XMLhttp://www.openbiz.me
Want to build a data centric business application without dirty code - PhpOpenbiz (Openbiz) is the solution! OpenBiz is a PHP application framework for professional IT developers and consultants to build web-based enterprise applications. Key features includes: XML Metadata-driven design principal. ...
Opendelight (Ash.MVC)
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insignificant learning curvehttp://ash-mvc.org/#www.adiipl.com
Features of Opendelight Robust and scalable architecture of application development Security scheme deeply engaged into the framework architecture Quick installation and development process Web-based IDE available for developing and managing application Less coding and file organizing ...
Orinoco
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light full-stackhttp://code.google.com/p/orinoco-framework/
- Framework Full-stack framework (Model, View and Controller) Extremely lightweight Easy to install and very easy to configure Clean and organized directory structure Classes can be easily extended Integrated Object-relational mapping (ORM) - Database Multiple table query support C ...
P4A (PHP for Applications)
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RAD, based on ZendF, transparent AJAXhttp://sourceforge.net/projects/p4a/
PHP5 RAD and object oriented PHP framework for building event-driven stateful web applications. Based on Zend Framework, features tableless HTML, multiple databases, accesskey support, auto data type recognition, transparent AJAX, UTF-8, i18n/l10n. ...
Be surprised at how fast you can build a web application with a pack of fire.http://mauris.sg/packfire/
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PhalconPHP
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framework as C extension for PHP, added performance because runtime features are compiled inhttp://phalconphp.com/
Phalcon is an open source, full stack framework for PHP 5 written as a C extension providing high performance. You don't have to learn or use C language, functionality are exposed as PHP classes you can use any time. Phalcon is also loose coupled thus you can select specific parts of the framework f ...
PHOCOA
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modelled after Apples Cocoa and WebObjectshttp://phocoa.com/
PHOCOA (pronounced faux-ko) is a PHP framework for developing web applications. PHOCOA's primary intent is to make web application development in PHP easier, faster, and higher-quality. The framework handles most of the "dirty work" of web application development by providing infrastructur ...
PHP7 Framework
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security first, hybrid and invisible APIhttp://sourceforge.net/p/php7framework/home/
Currently in planning stage. But the "new input()" filter module is already finished and provides an exceptionally cool and simple API: $_GET->text["field"] $_POST->ascii->nocontrol->words["comment"] $_REQUEST->array->int["list"] The ...
phpDays
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flexible php5 frameworkhttp://code.google.com/p/phpdays/
phpDays - flexible php5 framework for rapid web site development. Based on the MVC and ORM patterns. ...
PHPDevShell
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RADhttp://www.phpdevshell.org/
Mixed feelings. It's not a bloated skeleton, but has a diffuse directory structure. Permission system is mistaken for "security", and it generally relies on outdated practices (selfmade SQL escaping, die() for include files). ...
PHPixie
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A lightweight MVC framework that provides most mainstream features but with much less boilerplate and much easier to learn.http://phpixie.com
PHPixie delivers the most used features of MVC frameworks, but aims to be lightweight, unobtrusive and easy to learn. The "Learn PHPixie in 30 minutes" tutorial will set you ready for the development even if you have no idea what MVC is at all. ...
phpMF
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php MariaFrameworkhttp://www.phpmf.org
With a single 4Kb file the MF provides you highly scalable object oriented framework in php to think, write and deploy web applications which run faster. This is a no nonsense framework which has just what is barely needed. Any frills has to be added. The addons and plugins provide a method for reus ...
PHP on TRAX
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Rapid Application Development Made Easyhttp://www.phpontrax.com/
Php On Trax (formerly Php On Rails) is a web-application and persistance framework that is based on Ruby on Rails and includes everything needed to create db-backed web-applications according to the Model-View-Control pattern of separation. This pattern splits the view (also called the presentation) ...
phpPeanuts
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adaptive components and reduces project risk by rapid prototypinghttp://www.phppeanuts.org/
With phpPeanuts you do not build an application from the bottom up. Instead you get one scaffolded from meta data, then extend and refine it step by step to make it more and more like you want it to be. PhpPeanuts does in general not generate code. Instead its components adapt dynamically to the ...
PHP Work (QPHP)
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an event-driven(EDP), component-based web framework similar as architecture to ASP.NEThttp://phpwork.org/
BEWARE! THIS IS NOT AN OPEN SOURCE FRAMEWORK; unlike its predecessor QPHP Couldn't figure out how the controller and its page views operate. There's just two tutorials and an API doc. Maybe someone else can check this out. ...
phpwt
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small PHP website toolkithttp://code.google.com/p/phpwt/
This routing framework is almost unique in supporting language selection as part of the routing scheme. It's configured via XML routing tables, but handlers can dispatch to views as well. However it's a pure routing framework, few utility code besides that. == doc == Where do I configure temp ...
phraw
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mini-framework, small footprint, micro frameworkhttp://phraw.dav-muz.net/
11.7KB core framework. Using Smarty, RTL or any template engine, with caching. Can support all MVC-like patterns and several routing methods. ...
phunction
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Small and carefully designed PHP HMVC framework.https://github.com/alixaxel/phunction/
I've released phunction a few days ago, and I believe it takes the procedural meaning to the limit. It evolved from this outdated core-only code. I encapsulated the functions in half a dozen classes to avoid name collisions and add some contextual meaning but other than that it should take less than ...
PHP on PIE
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Build the next generation of PHP applications.http://phponpie.com/
We've made a framework that combines the best ideas from other great PHP projects. After using it to build all our projects for over a year, we've made it open source. It may be right for you, too. ...
Piece Framework
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Application Frameworkhttp://piece-framework.com/
Piece Framework is a PHP Application Framework. Piece Framework has aimed to introduce Generative Programming: Methods, Tools, and Applications, DSLs, Language Workbenches, Language Oriented Programming into the PHP world. ...
PINQ
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a OOP framework for PHP5http://code.google.com/p/pinq-php/
PINQ query language (mix between ORM and LINQ-like query builder), HTTP sanitizing, non-MVC ...
PPI Framework
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streamlines developmenthttp://www.ppi.io/
Leveraging PPI is fast, easy, and tuned for everything from Microblogging to E-Commerce and more. ...
PRADO
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component-based and event-driven programming frameworkhttp://www.pradosoft.com/
PRADO Sample Application: index.php - entry script of the PRADO application. This file is required by all PRADO applications and is the only script file that is directly accessible by end-users. Content in index.php mainly consists of the following three lines, require_once('path/to/prado.php ...
Pronto
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a talented web framework for phphttp://www.prontoproject.com/
What's Under the Hood? Robust Dispatcher Compatible with PHP4 and PHP5 Regexp-Based URL Routing CRUD Scaffolding Generator for Data Entities SQL-centric Models (not ORM) Rich Plugins at Template and Controller Levels Execution Profiles Brainless AJAX via Plugins and jQuery Efficient and Au ...
PSX Framework
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RESTful/routing compound frameworkhttp://phpsx.org/
PSX is a framework for developing dynamic websites in PHP. The goal of PSX is to help you developing RESTful APIs serving web standard formats like JSON, XML, Atom and RSS. It has a focus on social technologies and provides classes to use and implement OAuth, OpenID, Opengraph, Opensocial, Opensearc ...
Qcodo
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rad, code-generationhttp://www.qcodo.com/
The Qcodo Development Framework is an open-source PHP framework that focuses on freeing developers from unnecessary tedious, mundane coding. Code generation-based object relational model Component-based event-driven view / controller library Fully-integrated PHP-based AJAX support (no JavaScrip ...
QCubed
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QCubed is a PHP framework for rapid web development. Building on top of jQuery, with OOP at its core, QCubed provides a powerful solution for building database-driven Web 2.0 applications.http://qcu.be/
QCubed is a PHP framework for rapid web development. Building on top of jQuery, with OOP at its core, QCubed provides a powerful solution for building database-driven Web 2.0 applications. ...
Radiocore
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data-centrie 3-tier for administrative web appshttp://www.radicore.org/
RADICORE is not a clone of any existing framework written in any other language, nor does it use any framework components from any third party. It is totally 100% unique. It has been specifically engineered with Rapid Application Development in mind after the author's decades of experience with simi ...
Rapyd
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data-centric frameworkhttp://www.rapyd.com/
Rapyd is a PHP5 minimalistic framework made to build applications based on MVC and CRUD patterns Rapyd Features No compiling, no command line needed, just unzip, it will work. PHP5 Strict Modules support Nice URLs (SEO oriented) Tiny MVC in few files Really Open Source (MIT licensed) ...
Recess
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the RESTful PHP frameworkhttp://www.recessframework.org/
The only framework that bills itself as REST-aware. ...
Scorpio Framework for PHP
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MVC and CLI, translation and build toolshttp://scorpio.madagasgar.com/
Scorpio is a framework / component system for PHP5. It has been designed to be light-weight and easy to understand. The framework was designed and planned to provide the basics of what a project needs to get going, with a view to the sites that are developed being re-skinned many times but withou ...
Seagull
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mature OOP framework for building web, command line and GUI applicationshttp://seagullproject.org/
EXPAND. Simple overview from the docs and source. ...
Silex
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micro framework based on Symfony2http://silex.sensiolabs.org/
The PHP micro-framework based on the Symfony2 Components ...
SilverStripe
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SilverStripe Framework is an object-oriented PHP5 web application frameworkhttp://www.silverstripe.org/
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simple php framework
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pragmatichttp://clickontyler.com/simple-php-framework/
The Simple PHP Framework is a pragmatic approach to building websites with PHP 5. It’s geared towards web design shops and freelance programmers looking for a common foundation to quickly bring web projects to life. Without getting too technical, SPF follows the no-framework Framework method coine ...
SleekMVC
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Simple framework for noviceshttps://github.com/tlhunter/sleekmvc-app
SleekMVC is first and foremost a simple framework, meant to be easily consumed by the most novice of PHP developers. It was specifically built to be used by first year PHP students while being flexible enough to work for large scale applications. You won't find any useless classes shipped with Sleek ...
Slim
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minimal routing frameworkhttp://www.slimframework.com/
I wanted a way to launch a simple PHP web service with minimum fuss. There are plenty of respectable PHP frameworks, but many of them are too robust for my needs. So I created Slim, a simple DSL for creating PHP web services. ...
Solar PHP
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Simple Object Library and Application Repositoryhttp://solarphp.com/
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Sourdough
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Sourdough is a YAPF - Yet Another PHP Frameworkhttp://sourdough.phpee.com/
Sourdough is a comprehensive web application framework for PHP5. Sourdough provides developers with real-world solutions for common system components such as User Management, Session Handling, User Authentication, Exception Handling and Logging, Template System as well as Form Building and Handli ...
Spawn Framework
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simple construction ensures speed, efficiency and safetyhttp://spawnframework.com/
Spawn is the framework for any developer who needs a light utility to work. Controller: namespace Controller; //controller name class Home extends \Spawn\Controller { public function init() { //'I am init() method and I\'m start before action :-)'; $this -> meth ...
Spoon
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fast, easy to learn and funhttp://www.spoon-library.com/
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Swiftlet
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Quite possibly the smallest MVC framework you'll ever use.http://swiftlet.org
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Symfony
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PLACEHOLDER ENTRYhttp://www.symfony-project.org/
UNCOMPLETED ENTRY. Fill it out, if you like. ...
Symfony2
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Replace the repetitive coding tasks by power, control and pleasure.http://symfony.com/
Over-hyped successor framework to Symfony. Extensive documentation. Now comes in bundles, which can be used independently from the core. (BrowserKit ClassLoader Config CssSelector DependencyInjection DomCrawler EventDispatcher Finder Form HttpFoundation HttpKernel Locale Process Routing Security Se ...
Tekuna
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generic infrastructure, small footprinthttp://www.tekuna.org/
Routing / App structure config: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <application languages="en,de"> <module baseURL="/feeds/" layout="feed_atom.tpl"> <!-- ... --> </module> <module baseURL="/&quo ...
Thin PHP Framework
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ThinPHP is a lightweight, flexible PHP5 MVC framework. It aims to be a fast, simple and highly extensible framework. It's suitable for web developers who want a robust framework to start their projects but don't want too many dependencies.http://thinphp.com
ThinPHP is small (less than 50KB zipped), has fewer classes than other frameworks and library independent (excluded core view lib - Smarty). It incorporates a lot of useful features and best practices to help you in the process of web development. ...
Tigermouse
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AJAX framework for PHPhttp://tigermouse.epsi.pl/
Tigermouse is a modern web applications framework for PHP. It relies on AJAX technology, so in pair with being lightweight enables you to build dynamic, responsive and interactive web applications. It is well suited for enterprise-grade tasks because of its strong commitment to server-side business ...
Tiny MVC
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inyMVC is an MVC (Model-View-Controller) application framework for PHP. It provides clear separation between the database operations (Model), the presentation (View), and the glue in between (Controller).http://tinymvc.com/
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tinyPHP
@framework-matrix
tinyPHP is a simple and lightweight MVC framework. It is not as advanced and feature rich as other frameworks, but it is easy to learn and user friendly. If you are a beginner who feels that it is difficult to understand the concept behind MVC, tinyPHP can help. You will understand the concept better by using this simple and lightweight framework.http://tinyphp.us
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Tonic
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RESTful Web App Development PHP Libraryhttp://peej.github.com/tonic/
Everything useful is a resource. Resources are located by URLs. Clients can issue a standard number of HTTP methods upon an infinite number of resources and receive something useful in return. Representations of resources are sent back to the client, a representation is just a way of turning the ...
ToroPHP
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Rapid prototyping for PHP web developmenthttp://toroweb.org/
Toro is a tiny router that lets you develop PHP web applications quickly. Toro supports convenient handler methods for routing. The base methods include all HTTP verbs, such as get, post, put, and delete. Additionally, you can also append _xhr to any base, such as get_xhr, to match XHR requests. ...
Ultralight
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the lightest framework on the webhttp://ultraliteframework.com/
Vision Media delivers ultralite to the web. A new, light-weight, high performance, ajax-ready, PHP framework. Developed with simplicity and a narrow learning curve in mind you can have your website up in moments. ...
Verbier
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another small Sinatra-clonehttp://github.com/Hanse/verbier
verbier is a framework inspired by Sinatra. Why? Every programming language ought to have at least five Sinatra inspired frameworks. The idea of Sinatra is great and it is well suited for small apps. ...
Vitche
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non-commercial and lightweighthttp://emission-framework.com/index.html
Follows the OOD approach and it implements many well-known and not-widely-known patterns. Comes with SOAP, JSON, REST support, and some UI features. ...
Vork Enterprise
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extensive libraryhttp://www.vork.us/
Vork is an open-source PHP framework designed for rapid development of performance-oriented scalable applications. The mission of Vork is to provide an MVC architecture with a full-featured toolkit and universal database support without adding overhead, creating slow & unscalable abstraction ...
WACT
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a modular framework for creating web applicationshttp://www.phpwact.org/
WACT is a higher level toolkit, and doesn't provide the multitude of small gizmos common in other frameworks. The SVN version even lacks the DBAL module. CONTROLLER <?php require_once 'wact/controller/controller.inc.php'; require_once 'wact/template/loader.inc.php'; class CaseConverter e ...
Wave
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API-centric Micro-frameworkhttp://waveframework.com/
Wave is a PHP micro-framework that is built loosely on model-view-control architecture and factory method design pattern. It is made for web services, websites and info-systems and is built around a native API architecture, caching and smart image and resource management. Wave is a compact framework ...
Xataface
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put a face on your databasehttp://xataface.com/
Xataface is a flexible and shapable skin that sits on top of MySQL, making it accessible to every-day users. It automatically generates the appropriate forms, lists, and menus for a user to interact with the database without having to know any SQL. It is a full-featured Web application framework, ...
xMVC
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XML/XSLT frameworkhttp://code.google.com/p/xmvc-php/
xMVC is a light-weight MVC framework for PHP 5.3+ that intimately connects XML, XSLT and PHP. The concept behind xMVC is storing data in XML models, leveraging filenames and folder hierarchy to segregate data, and applying XSL transformations on only the XML models specified by the PHP controller. I ...
Yii
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high-performance, component-based, for large-scale applications, full stackhttp://www.yiiframework.com/
It's really for large applications. Enterprisey naming and class structures. ...
ZanPHP
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Easy to learnhttp://www.zanphp.com/
Classes : Array2XML Cache Controller Data Db Email Files Images Load Model MongoDB Pagination RESTClient RESTServer Singleton Templates -- Helpers : Alerts Array Autoload Benchmark Browser Debugging Forms HTML il8n Infle ...
Zend Framework
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a library collection of useful utility code, strictly OO, testedhttp://framework.zend.com/
Zend Framework is more of a library collection. A huge one. It's basically the new PEAR, but provides a PMVC base. ...
Zend Framework 2
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a library collection of useful utility code, strictly OO, testedhttp://framework.zend.com/zf2
(Download link is hidden behind a subscribe-or-fuck-off button, so couldn't be bothered to...) ...
Zephyr
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ajax based mvc framework for php5 developershttp://zephyr-php.sourceforge.net/
zephyr is an ajax based framework for php5 developers. you can easily develop business applications using this robust framework. this is extremely easy to learn and very simple to implement. you can deliver a full fledged ajax application with strong business layer in backend within some minutes. in ...
Zikula
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postNuke rebranded as frameworkhttp://zikula.org/
No matter what your needs, Zikula can provide the solution. Whether it is a corporate presence with ecommerce, a simple blog or a community portal, Zikula can do it all. Best of all, its completely free. Our community forum provides you with the support and help you need free of charge. If you ne ...
ZooP
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PHP development without the suckhttp://zoopframework.com/
Far from being Yet Another PHP Framework or Rails clone, Zoop has been in development since 2001 and in use for the last 6 years in a number of different production environments. While it predates the recent proliferation of PHP frameworks, it's based on solid MVC principles, including separation of ...
<b>debug entry</b>
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testing onlyhttp://matrix.include-once.org/framework/
Non-entry used for probing new features. <script>alert("Nope.")</script> ...
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