PHP For Applications
P4A – PHP For Applications is a RAD and object oriented web application framework written in PHP (version 5), for building event-driven stateful web applications. It is based on Zend Framework and features tableless HTML, multiple databases, accesskey support, auto data type recognition, transparent AJAX, UTF-8, i18n/l10n.
History
P4A started in 2003.
Features
P4A uses Zend Framework, jQuery, jQuery UI and FCKeditor and is:
100% PHP5Compatible with PHP 5.2.x, Apache 1.3.x/2.0.x and Microsoft IIS 6.0 web servers on Linux/Unix/Windows operating systems
Completely object oriented and event based programmingBased on [Zend Framework] 1.5 (using Zend_Date, Zend_Db, Zend_Locale, Zend_Validate, Zend_Translate)
Stateful as a classical client application
Easy access to all major database engines (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQLite) through Zend_DB, with automatic data input mask generation
Multiple database connections at the same time
Automatic database data type recognition and consequent functionalities for automatic formatting and normalizing (integers, decimals, floats, date and time formats, booleans) coherent with the national locale settings
Many user interface elements (Widgets) such as single line or multiple lines text fields with advanced rich WYSIWYG text editing support, checkboxes, single/multiple selection fields, tables, buttons, tree navigators, toolbars, fieldsets etc…WYSIWYG advanced editor (FCKeditor) with file upload
Transparent AJAX support (forget about javascript programming, everything is AJAX based in P4A but you can completely disable ajax with a single line of code, redesign one or more or every widgets on the screen after every AJAX call only using PHP instructions)
methods calls chainability440 locales supported (numeric and date formats) thanks to the ZF implementation of the Unicode’s CLDR
More than 40 translations bundled
Completely UTF-8
Hyper customizable with color schemas, icons packs, additional CSS
Project status
Current stable version is version 3.2.