PHP2Go is an application framework created to help experienced developers and beginners to build web applications. Written in PHP and PHP4/5 compatible, it's a code repository composed by classes and components that provide the necessary tools to create and maintain applications, replacing and encapsulating common and repetitive tasks.

The main goals of this project are: code reuse, flexibility, scalability, object orientation and separation between business and presentation code. Each part of the framework provides the underpinnings that bring to the web development more organization, standarization and reuse. So, developers can focus on what really matters: business logic, functionality and usability.

From a simple weblog to a large enterprise portal, PHP2Go can be used in all sizes of applications, assuring clean code, robustness, extensibility and flexibility. It doesn't force you to follow lots of strict and complex rules. It offers alternatives on how to do things, but usually there will be more than one way to do them and frequently you're able to customize the way you'll do them. We know how freedom is important to a web developer :-)

PHP2Go is totally free to use, once it's published under the LGPL license. Therefore, it will bring you all the benefits of the open source community and it will help you to create any sort of applications - even closed commercial ones.

• It's totally compliant with the best web development practices and patterns and it's aligned with the newest and hottest trends on how to build Internet applications
• It's built as an hierarchical and organized class library. 99% of the PHP code inside the framework is object oriented
• Since the beginning in 2002, the project has been constantly growing. At each release, more fixes, features and enhancements have been added and the popularity has increased a lot in the last year
• As of version 1.0.0, this project aims to satisfy 100% of the most common requirements of a web development framework. That signifies that there's much to come in the next months...
• Many common needs of a web developer are included in the framework
• Easy to install and configure. It doesn't force any directory structure and can be shared by many applications
• It's published under a flexible license
• The framework code adheres to well known coding standards and naming conventions
• It's fully compatible with PHP4 (since version 4.1) and PHP5
• It doesn't require any special configuration to run on your web server or provider

• Authencation and authorization, including a user container class
• Database integration via ADODb
• SQL and DML building tools
• Forms API, using XML descriptors and including a lot of built-in components
• HTML reports, including a basic filter widget
• Client and remote (JSRS, AJAX) event listeners for forms
• Automatic client/server validation for forms
• Template engine
• Template widgets
• Data sets and paged data sets
• Data validators
• Fully featured and cross-browser Javascript Framework, including AJAX
• Request/Response helpers
• Session management
• Feeds parsing/rendering
• XML parsing/rendering
• Caching module
• I/O handling (files, directories, archiving, compression)
• Network connectivity components (MIME Mail, FTP, HTTP, SMTP, POP3, Sockets)
• Centralized configuration manager
• Class loader and autoload interceptor for PHP5
• Internationalization support
• Error handling

• Front Controller and Page Controller patterns
• Smart URL router
• ORM through DAO and Active Record patterns, including relationships and inheritance handling
• More template widgets and more form components
• Web Services support
• Logging package
• Input filter package

Please read the documentation and visit the examples and demo applications to learn more about PHP2Go. Reading and analysing the comments and code pieces, you'll find out what are the main framework components and how they can be used to execute common tasks and create routines, pages and flows for your applications.

If you have any doubt, suggestion, bug report or a good idea to optimize, enhance or extend the framework's features, you can visit the project's Trac server or the project's forum. You can also send us a direct message clicking here. There's a lot of work to do, so your help as user or developer is very important.

Hope you enjoy developing with PHP2Go!