PHP Frameworks

Wigbi

Wigbi is an open source web application framework that is implemented in PHP 5 and licensed under the GPLv3 license.

History

The development of Wigbi begun in late 2006. Wigbi initially aimed at mapping PHP classes to the database and various script layers like JavaScript and Flash, with the goal to speed up development and avoid manual errors.

During development,…

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Orinoco Framework

The Orinoco Framework is an open source, object-oriented, full-stack web framework implemented in PHP and released under the MIT License. The framework follows the Model-View-Controller architecture and implements the Model 2 design paradigm. Like any other MVC frameworks, Orinoco Framework allows developer to create web applications using less code and easily maintainable project. The framework’s goal is to help developers…

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CakePHP

CakePHP is an open source web application framework for producing web applications. It is written in PHP, modeled after the concepts of Ruby on Rails, and distributed under the MIT License.

History

CakePHP started in 2005, when Ruby on Rails was gaining popularity. The community has since grown and spawned several sub-projects. CakePHP is not a port of Ruby on…

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Fuse Framework

FUSE is a PHP framework created by Jim Keller that uses Model-view-controller architecture along with Object-relational mapping Data Modeling concepts to provide tools for rapid PHP development.

History

FUSE was developed in response to the need for a powerful but simple framework for PHP that included concepts from the increasingly popular MVC framework Ruby on Rails. FUSE endeavors to be…

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Symfony

Symfony is a web application framework written in PHP which follows the model-view-controller (MVC) paradigm. Released under the MIT license, Symfony is free software. The symfony-project.com website launched on October 18, 2005.

Symfony should not be confused with Symphony CMS, the Open Source XML/XSLT content management system.

Goal

Symfony aims to speed up the creation and maintenance of web applications…

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Agavi

Agavi is an open source, object-oriented web application framework implemented in PHP 5 and licensed under the LGPL. Its object oriented implementation follows the Model–view–controller pattern.

History

Like Symfony, Agavi is based on the never-released third version of the once well-known and popular PHP framework Mojavi developed by Sean Kerr.

The project was created in May 2005 when a team…

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Elixon WCMS/XUL

Elixon WCMS/XUL is a light-weight proprietary content management system (CMS) written and developed by Daniel Ševčík. Server side is developed using PHP and SQLite while administration front end is build using Mozilla’s XUL family of technologies and AJAX. The whole system is module based.

Unlike other XUL based applications Elixon WCMS/XUL does not require any client-side installable extensions. The system…

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Seagull PHP Framework

Seagull PHP Framework (Seagull) is an OOP PHP software framework for building web, command line and GUI applications. Seagull uses Model-view-controller design pattern. Many popular PHP applications are integrated within the project, as are various templating engines, PEAR libs, testing tools and managed library code.

Features

Seagull offers the following key features:

PHP 4/5 compatiblecompact core framework with complete modules…

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Tigermouse

Tigermouse is an Ajax framework for web applications development in the PHP scripting language.

Goal

Tigermouse aims to be a high quality development tool that speeds up and simplifies the process of software prototyping, modelling, creation, reuse and refactoring. It is suited for developing Rich Internet Applications in the Model-View-Controller architecture. Its main design principle is to keep business logic…

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Qcodo

The QCodo Development Framework is an open-source PHP 5 web application framework which builds an Object Relational Model (ORM), CRUD (Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete) UI pages, and AJAX hooks from an existing data model. It additionally includes a tightly-integrated HTML and JavaScript form toolkit which interfaces directly with the generated entities. It is a lightweight framework which can be utilized…

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