# Prado PHP Framework PRADO is a component-based and event-driven programming framework for developing Web applications in PHP 5. PRADO stands for PHP Rapid Application Development Object-oriented. [](https://travis-ci.org/pradosoft/prado) [](https://coveralls.io/r/pradosoft/prado?branch=master) [](http://depending.in/pradosoft/prado) [](https://packagist.org/packages/pradosoft/prado) [](https://packagist.org/packages/pradosoft/prado) ## A Word Of Warning Prado migration to Github has just been completed, if you find any problem please open an issue here or on the [forum](http://www.pradoframework.com/forum). ## API Documentation The complete API documentation can be found at http://www.pradoframework.com/docs/manual/ ## Install The best way to install Prado is [through composer](http://getcomposer.org). Just create a composer.json file for your project: ```JSON { "require": { "pradosoft/prado": "~3.2" } } ``` Then you can run these two commands to install it: $ curl -s http://getcomposer.org/installer | php $ php composer.phar install or simply run `composer install` if you have have already [installed the composer globally](http://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md#globally). Then you can include the autoloader, and you will have access to the library classes: ```php <?php require 'vendor/autoload.php'; ```