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phpOpenFW

phpOpenFW is an open source MVC PHP web development framework released under the GNU Public License (GPL) version 2.

Author

Christian J. Clark

Website

http://www.emonlade.net/phpopenfw/

License

GNU Public License (GPL) version 2 ( http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.txt )

Version

1.3.0

Requirements

phpOpenFW requires PHP >= 5.3, libxslt, libxml, php-xsl, and php-xml.

Support

Contact support@emonlade.net for comments questions, or concerns.

Features

phpOpenFW has an abundance of features that facilitate the development of powerful, flexible web sites and web applications. Below is an outline of the features offered by phpOpenFW.

Framework Facilities

• Form Engine
• Database Abstraction Class
• Active Record Class
• XML Element Class (abstract)
• Recordset List to Table Class
• Generic XHTML Table Class
• Plugin Facility

Application Facilities

• Built-in Authentication services
• Module list / Navigation Facility

Plugins

• XML Transformation (using XSL)
• Quick Database Actions
• Date/Time Functions
• Code Benchmark

Apache Mod_Rewrite Rules

When using the nav_xml_format of "rewrite", you need to have to following apache mod_rewrite rules in place for the application navigation to work correctly. You can tweak the rules to suit you application, but there needs to be a catch-all rule that forward all pages through the applications main index.php script. Also, the pass-through for the CSS, images, and Javascript is important as well.

Example:

RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+).html$ index.php?page=$1 [L] RewriteRule ^(themes|css|img|javascript) - [L] RewriteRule .favicon.ico$ - [L] RewriteRule ^.$ index.php [L,qsa]

If you are using Virtual Document Roots with Apache your rules will most likely need to look something like this:

RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^([^/\.]+).html$ index.php?page=$1 [L] RewriteRule ^(themes|css|img|javascript) - [L] RewriteRule Ê.favicon.ico$ - [L] RewriteRule ^.$ index.php [L,qsa]