Open Source PHP Frameworks

Pyntax DAO is ORM / DAO / Database Abstraction Layer which helps you connect to database and do CRUD operations with very minimal setup and coding written in PHP. The current version of the PyntaxDAO only works with MySQL but future version would be compatible with other databases also.

Bedrock is a web framework designed around bridging popular APIs and technologies with PHP. While it has an MVC core with all the functionality expected from a web framework, it's primary goal is to simplify the use of other technologies with PHP.

A simple MVC Engine built in the PHP programming language.

Make AJAX/PHP avatar worlds on websites. Build visualized, real multi-user communities, fora and chat rooms. See your buddies wander around. From card games to virtual RPG worlds, DutchPIPE makes it possible. The future: interconnected DutchPIPE sites.

PHP 5.3+ compatible framework set to run on Apache. Its a standard MVC style framework with Plugins and Bins (payload style packaging).

IAPlatform is a base PHP framework nesting many other internet applications (as eXtensions), enabling interaction with them and bringing a whole new content management system. IAP is written in object-oriented PHP and uses SQL and XML as data sources.

Infrastructure for contructing php applications. This software is intended as a skeleton to build MVC oriented apps. It uses some PEAR packages (such as auth, db_dataobject and html_quickform) and the Smarty template system.

Kjora Framework is a lightweight PHP 5.3 framework. It provides an architecture to build a Model-View based website, with a dynamic data access object, and a "One Page - One Class" system to design it.

Kohi is an object-oriented PHP framework that aims to be light-weight, easy-to-learn and does not want to stand in the programmer's way - a framework for non-framework folks.

PACL - PHP Advanced Component Library is an advanced "java-style" PHP5 framework/class library for easy building robust web applications. The vision is to enable abstract and rapid development of sophisticated PHP applications in few lines of code.

PHP framework with support for simple tags and server-side events like jsp, asp.net, etc. prioritizing separation between structure, behavior and presentation, generating clean valid html markup.

The PHP Web Toolkit enables the rapid development of multi-layered web applications and is designed to be easy to use, extensible, reliable, reusable, scalable and secure. It integrates with ADOdb, FCKeditor, kses, Libmcrypt, Libmhash and Smarty.

PHP_Application is a framework for development of event-driven applications in which two ways of events distribution for two levels of abstraction are realized. The first level are objects and their events, the second - the application and its events.

The Pith PHP Framework is a web application framework written in PHP 5. Features planned for 1.0 are listed in the Readme; the current version of the Pith Framework is 0.5.7.2 (alpha release 22) The goal of the Pith Framework is to combine a simple to use (pithy) framework with an admin control panel. The Pith Framework puts everything it does into an easy to use variable named $pith. (Currently there are a couple other vars in the global namespace but they'll be gone in a few versions from now) Other objects can be loaded onto the $pith object, ex: $pith->filter, $pith->email, $pith->db

A PHP5 Model/View/Controller framework including components for easy and extensible form validation, module and action level role and user-based security, support for the Smarty template engine and a layer on top of PEAR::DB for passing named parameters.

QuickFrame provides a rapid development framework for PHP 5 powered sites. Due to its modular structure QuickFrame can be used as a skeleton for new sites or as a full-featured CMS ready to be deployed within minutes.

The Seed framework is a full stack MVC Framework for PHP4 designed for rapid application development.

A slimline PHP-based MVC2 framework

SiPPF is a small and easy to use persistency framework for PHP5, which doesn't require you to adapt special design patterns for your entities.

Splib is a PHP5-only library for use of XML-DOM objects, process and construct xhtml pages and parsing xml templates Come with a framework (codename:tomates) for using in a MVC Solution; support templating, activerecord and a extensive forms widgets API

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A platform for web sites and services that require solid support for rich user interfaces in a fail-safe and scalable architecture. It consists of a frontend Javascript framework (also usable stand-alone) and a backend PHP/MySQL environment.

dbscript is a new PHP framework for composing distributed collaborative Semantic Web applications with Microformats, OpenID and REST Web services and Qooxdoo Ajax Toolkit. install --> wget dbscript.net/latest.zip, unzip latest.zip, vi db/config.yml

Complete PHP 5 framework based on classes for creating powerfull and ajax based web applications. Also it provides a set of custom controls for making your web applications looking better and with more prestabilities

PHPLights is a modern, lightweight and PHP5 based application development framework. It makes heavy use of PHPs object oriented features like interfaces, abstract classes and exceptions making the core library very lean, easy to understand and extens