Zephyr

November 17th, 2007 Arsen Posted in Patterns - PHP |

Zephyr is an MVC (model-view-controller) framework and supports complete separation of business logic layer from presentation layer. It is built using popular and tested libraries in backend.

• zephyr uses Smarty as template engine. so developing templates for zephyr is flexible and structured. moreover you can use all the powerful features of smarty in your templates.
• adoDB is used as DAL (data access layer) in zephyr.
• you can manage multiple databases concurrently in zephyr actions.
• easy integration of custom php and javascript libraries
• zephyr’s front end is developen on top of sam stephenson’s famous prototype library. it reduces pain to use javascript in templates and gives you ultimate flexibility.
• zephyr uses CPAINT as ajax interface. so you can easily pass multibyte characters from and to your actions using zephyr.
• each package has their own initializer
• implements pre actions processors which helps you to run some specific actions before normal actions. this will help you to implement stronger validations.
• supports cron actions which runs after regular interval.
• easy manipulation of database records. zephyrs internal request manager manages all request parameters in a flexible way so that you just dont need to access and set these parameters exclusively.
• you can integrate any PEAR package easily.
• you can manage database aggreate functions via zephyr’s builtin database aggregator object.
• Supports multiple level of user defined filters
• easy integration with ezComponents