Welcome to ZNF

ZNF - PHP5 MVC framework for enterprise web applications

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Description

The goal of this project is to provide an open source framework for building PHP5 enterprise web applications.
The core of the ZNF framework is a flexible control layer based on standard technologies like PHP5 and XML. ZNF encourages application architectures based on the Model 2 approach, a variation of the classic Model-View-Controller (MVC) design paradigm.

ZNF provides its own controller component and integrates with other technologies to provide the model and the view.
For the model, ZNF can interact with standard data access technologies, like PEAR::MDB2 and PDO.
For the view, ZNF works well with Smarty template engine and XSL Transformations.

The ZNF framework provides the invisible underpinnings every professional web application needs to survive. ZNF helps you create an extensible development environment for your application, based on published standards and proven design patterns.

Features

Customizable front controller
XML configurations to define handling of run-time events
Authorization
Input filtering and validation
Localization
Themes
Transparent caching engine
Remote components
Model integration with PEAR::MDB2 and PDO
View integration with Smarty template engine and XSL Transformations
Capability to run in a E_STRICT environment
PEAR compatible package