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Features

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• Clean Code / Database / Display logic seperation with Hierarchical MVC
• Page / method / variable chains (i.e.: /articles/read/10/comment/35)
• Search engine friendly & clean URLs without creating dozens of rewrite rules
• View / Variable inheritance during application flow
• Rapid and intuitive development process
• User permission handling
• Outside variable handling ($_GET, $_POST, $_REQUEST, $_COOKIE, etc.)
• Form handling and processing
• Session handling
• Configuration file handling
• DRY and KISS principles
• Support for web trends (i.e. AJAX)
• Database independance & object persistance
• Human-readable manual and example applications
• Loose-coupled components with possibility of choice and extensions
• Portability, easy setup and configuration (changing app location will not require changing any configs, except for .htaccess RewriteBase, which is optional)

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Competitors

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• SAJA
  Saja is an open-source AJAX scripting engine for PHP with secure function calls. It is designed for fast creation of simple, intuitive, and updatable AJAX applications, without the need to write any JavaScript.
  Saja is currently implemented through PHP only. It consists of 4 files. You should only need to edit saja.functions.php to get it to work. The only other requirement is that all 4 files must reside in the same directory
• SMF
  Simple Machines Forum — SMF in short — is a free, professional grade software package that allows you to set up your own online community within minutes. Its powerful custom made template engine puts you in full control of the lay-out of your message board and with our unique SSI - or Server Side Includes - function you can let your forum and your website interact with each other. SMF is written in the popular language PHP and uses a MySQL database. It is designed to provide you with all the features you need from a bulletin board while having an absolute minimal impact on the resources of the server. SMF is the next generation of forum software - and best of all it is and will always remain completely free!
• Symfony
  Symfony is a php enterprise framework, with commonly known design patterns. Based on the best practices of web development, thoroughly tried on several active websites, symfony aims to speed up the creation and maintenance of web applications, and to replace the repetitive coding tasks by power, control and pleasure. Symfony provides a lot of features seamlessly integrated together, such as: * simple templating and helpers * cache management * smart URLs * scaffolding * multilingualism and I18N support * object model and MVC separation * Ajax support * enterprise ready Yahoo! Bookmarks is made with Symfony.
• CakePHP
  Cake is a rapid development framework for PHP which uses commonly known design patterns like ActiveRecord, Association Data Mapping, Front Controller and MVC. Our primary goal is to provide a structured framework that enables PHP users at all levels to rapidly develop robust web applications, without any loss to flexibility.
• HTS Web Application Framework
  The HTS Web Application Framework is a PHP and Javascript based framework designed to make simple web applications easy to design and implement. The framework implements a custom tag engine with an automated Javascript and/or PHP Event Model and automates the transfer
• AjaxSeed
  Super AJAX Programming Seed is a little program that illustrates a simple implementation of AJAX technology using HTML and PHP, and offers suggestions for how to use the technology to make highly dynamic Web applications from scratch.