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% PHP5
* Compatible 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 programming
* Based on 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 chainability
* 440 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 [http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id98294&package_id105252 version 3.2].

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