PRADO Framework for PHP 5

PRADO is a component-based and event-driven framework for Web application development in PHP 5.

PRADO is best suitable for creating Web applications that are highly user-interactive. It can be used to develop systems as simple as a blog system to those as complex as a content management system (CMS) or a complete e-commerce solution. Because PRADO promotes object-oriented programming (OOP) through its component-based methodology, it fits extremely well for team work and enterprise development. Its event-driven programming pattern helps developers gain better focus on business logic rather than distracted by various tedious and repetitive low-level coding handling.

PRADO comes with many features that can cut down development time signficantly. In particular, it provides a rich set of pluggable Web controls, complete database support including both active record and complex object mapper, seamless AJAX support, theme and skin, internationalization and localization, various caching solutions, security measures, and many other features that are seldom find in other programming frameworks.

Developers who have sufficient OOP experience will find PRADO is easy to learn and understand. In fact, PRADO shares many similarities with ASP.NET and other RAD kits for Windows GUI development, such as Borland Delphi and Microsoft Visual Basic.

Requirements

The sole requirement for PRADO is PHP 5.1.0 or higher. Please run requirement checker to obtain more detailed requirement information.

PRADO has been tested with Apache 2.0 on both Windows XP and RedHat Linux.

Installation

After downloading the latest PRADO release file, unpack it to a Web-accessible directory. The installation is done! You will see the following subdirectories,

framework - contains the core code of PRADO. This is the only directory that you will need in order to deploy with your PRADO application. It does NOT need to reside in a Web-accessible directory.
demos - contains PRADO demo applications.
docs - contains tutorials and documentation about PRADO.
editors - contains editor plugins for PRADO.
requirements - contains a requirement checker script that can check if your system can run PRADO applications.
tests - contains test tools that can be used to do unit test and functionality test about Web applications.

Included Demos

Hello World
PRADO Blog Tutorial (incomplete)
PRADO QuickStart Tutorial (contains many small demos)
PRADO Blog (requires php_sqlite extension)
Time Tracker (requires php_pdo and php_pdo_mysql extensions)
PRADO Component Writer
Chat (requires php_pdo and php_pdo_sqlite extensions)
Currency Converter
SOAP (requires php_soap extension)
Personal Website
Flex Addressbook (requires php_soap, php_pdo and php_pdo_sqlite extensions)
Northwind database (requires php_pdo and php_pdo_sqlite extensions)

Editor Support

A Macromedia Dreamweaver extension can be found under editors/Dreamweaver. This extension contains a tag library that enables Dreamweaver to auto-complete PRADO component tags when you use it to edit PRADO templates.

Documentation

Integrated manual (CHM), including quickstart, API, class docs and wiki
Quickstart tutorial (PDF)
API documentation (HTML)

Credits

Prado v3 Developer Team

Prado v3 Testing Team

Christophe Boulain

Prado v2 Maintenance Team

Past Team Members

Special Credits To

Stever for providing an Apple G3 notebook for testing safari browser issues.
Stanislav Yordanov - the script of generating Dreameweaver extension for PRADO
Andrés Adolfo Testi - original concept and naming for Active Controls.
Jack Slocum - inspiration for the quickstart commenting system.
Cesar Ramos - Active Record driver for IBM DB2.
All PRADO users - great suggestions, feedback and support
ASP.NET 2.0 for its great inspiration and reference
All third-party work used in PRADO

License

The PRADO framework and the included demos are free software. They are released under the terms of the following BSD License.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
Neither the name of the PRADO Group nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

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