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NGen

NGen is a small project that I have been working on for a while now, on and off. I have successfully deployed a few sites that use my framework and haven't had anything terrible happen -- which isn't to say that it's production quality software (it's not!) but it's definitely usable (assuming the latest revision is stable!).

This project could be considered a learning project to fully understand the MVC concept and what all goes into creating a feature rich OOP website framework.

Goal

My goal is to create a powerful, flexible, lightweight website framework.

Features

• Lightweight / Optimized
• Well-documented code
• Friendly URLs (IE: http://mysite.com/example/page)
• Database drivers use PDO ([http://php.net/pdo documentation])
• PDO is a fast and secure solution for PHP developers
• Database connection pooling
• Easily maintain multiple database connections of the same or different type of DBMS
• Support for multiple themes
• Easily extended
• Infinitely nested page support (IE: http://mysite.com/blog/admin/users/search/Name)
• Secure session handler
• Protects against session fixation
• Supports URL-based "auth" key for added security
• Easy to use (IE: $session->user = 'Name')
• Support for multiple template engines
• Don't want to use Smarty? No problem!
• Smarty3 Template Engine
• Visual error handling
• Errors can be captured and visually expressed instead of breaking page layouts
• Like what you see? Give NGen a try!

Requirements

• PHP 5.2+ (PHP 5.3 supported)
• Tested webservers
• Apache2 (link)
• Nginx 0.7.62 (link)