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Ruby on Rails
Open Source by David Heinemeier Hansson |
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Ruby on Rails is an open source full-stack web application framework for the Ruby programming language. Rails is a full-stack framework, meaning that it gives the Web developer the full ability to gather...

Development programming, web-development, framework +1 more, web-application-framework
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Agile Toolkit
Open Source by Agile Technologies |
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Agile Toolkit is a PHP framework for developing Web User Interfaces. Inspired by desktop GUI it provides a full object-oriented foundation for Business and Presentation logic of your web software. Agile...

Development portable, agile, user-interface, jquery, php5 +3 more, php-framework, cakephp, problem
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Django
Open Source |
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Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.

Development python, framework, django
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Symfony
Open Source by Sensio Labs |
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Symfony is a full-stack framework, a library of cohesive classes written in PHP. It provides an architecture, components and tools for developers to build complex web applications faster. Choosing symfony...

php, framework, php5, symfony, php-code-generation, mit
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Laravel
Open Source by Taylor Otwell |
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Laravel is a clean and classy PHP framework with minimal configuration and expressive syntax. RESTful routing; ORM; beautiful code.

framework, php-framework
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Yii Framework
Open Source by Yii Software LLC |
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Yii is a high-performance component-based PHP framework best for Web 2.0 development.

php, framework, php-development, php-framework
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Symfony2
Open Source by Sensio Labs |
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Symfony - Open-Source PHP web framework Symfony is a PHP Web Development Framework. That doesn’t answer your question? Ok, let’s try that again. Symfony is a PHP Framework, a Philosophy, and a Community...

php, framework, php5, symfony, php-code-generation
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Zend Framework
Open Source by Zend |
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Extending the art & spirit of PHP, Zend Framework is based on simplicity, object-oriented best practices, corporate friendly licensing, and a rigorously tested agile codebase. Zend Framework is focused on...

php, framework, php-development, php5
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CakePHP
Open Source |
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CakePHP is a rapid development framework for PHP that provides an extensible architecture for developing, maintaining, and deploying applications. Using commonly known design patterns like MVC and ORM within...

Business & Commerce php, cms, framework, web-application, cakephp +1 more, rapid-development-php
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Kohana
Open Source |
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Kohana is an elegant HMVC PHP5 framework that provides a rich set of components for building web applications. It requires very little configuration, fully supports UTF-8 and i18n, and provides many of the...

Development, Education & Reference database, php, modeling, encryption, framework +11 more, translation, lightweight, mvc, extensible, international, object-oriented, utf-8, internationalization, classes, utf8, hmvc
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SingularCore
Open Source by http://www.uswebstyle.com |
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SingularCore is a fine product powered by Zend Framework that provides instruments to create complex custom solutions where standard CMS’s won’t work or where you need too much customization in popular engines.

zend-framework, open-source-engine, singular +4 more, singular-core, singular-engine, php-engine, modular-system
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PHP Fat-Free Framework
Open Source by F3 Factory |
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FAT-FREE is a powerful yet lightweight PHP 5.3+ Web development framework designed to help you build dynamic and robust applications - fast! Condensed in a single 55KB file, the frameworks simple...

Development php, html, sql, framework, xml, lightweight, spam, cache +7 more, unit-testing, modular, sitemap, template-engine, orm, code-profiler, identicons
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phunction
Open Source by Alix Axel |
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Small and carefully designed PHP 5.2+ HMVC framework.

php, framework, php-development, php-framework
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Obullo
Open Source by Ersin Güvenç |
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Obullo is a Lightweight MVC based Php5 Framework. Features: HMVC - modules and subfolders, tasks (Cli), ajax support, validation in model (VM), write your own modules, well documented, codeigniter based.

tasks, cli, framework, ajax, php5, modular +7 more, tasks-manager, utf8, lightweight, hmvc, validation-in-model, ajax-support, nginx-http-server-support
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Silex PHP micro-framework
Open Source by Sensio Labs |
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Silex - The PHP micro-framework based on Symfony2 Components Silex is a PHP microframework for PHP 5.3. It is built on the shoulders of Symfony2 and Pimple and also inspired by sinatra. A microframework...

php, framework, php5, mvc, symfony, oop +2 more, micro-framework, symfony2
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ASP.NET MVC
Open Source by Microsoft |
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The ASP.NET MVC is a framework for building scalable, standards-based web applications using the model-view-controller (MVC) pattern and the power of ASP.NET and the .NET Framework.

Development web-development, framework, mvc, asp.net, csharp
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FuelPHP
Open Source by iKreativ.com |
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Fuel is a simple, flexible, community driven PHP 5.3 web framework based on the best ideas of other frameworks with a fresh start. The framework was started in late 2010 by Dan Horrigan then shortly after...

php, php-development, php-framework
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Akelos
Open Source by www.bermilabs.com |
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Port of Ruby on Rails development framework and designed to work for PHP4 and PHP5. The Akelos PHP Framework is a web application development platform based on the MVC (Model View Controller) design pattern.

Development php, web-development, ajax, mvc, php-development, php5 +2 more, php-framework, ruby-on-rails-development
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K2F
Open Source |
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Yet another PHP framework? Yes, but with a twist. This framework doesn’t focus on a specific methodology or paradigm (eg: MVC), but on getting things done quickly and the way you want. This might sound...

mvc, php-framework
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Phraw
Open Source by Davide Muzzarelli |
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Phraw, a PHP micro-framework. Phraw is indicated for small web sites and small applications because is fast to learn, fast to bootstrap and fast to serve requests.

php, framework, bsd, php5, routing, lamp, mvc +2 more, mvc-pattern, micro-framework

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