PRADO Framework for PHP 5

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

Components following the PRADO protocol are highly configurable and reusable. Properties defining the basic features of a component can be configured in specifications, templates or code. New components can be developed by either inheriting an existing component class or composing several components together. The work of using a component amounts to placing the component tag on the page template, configuring component properties, and writing handler functions to respond to component events.

PRADO shares many similarities with ASP.NET and other RAD tools for Windows GUI development, such as Borland Delphi. In particular, it supports event-driven programming, viewstate maintenance, javascript, template, form validations, theme/skin, etc.

Requirements

The sole requirement for PRADO is PHP 5.0.4 or higher. It has been tested with Apache 2.0 on both Windows XP and RedHat Linux.

Installation

Unpack the distribution file using "unzip" command on Linux or "winzip" program on Windows.
Copy all the files and directories under the unpacked "prado" directory to the DocumentRoot of the Web server (or a subdirectory of that).
Browse the URL, http://<Web-server-address>/requirements/index.php, to see if your Web server configuration satisfies the requirement for using PRADO.
The directory "framework" contains the core code of PRADO.
The directory "docs/manual" contains the PRADO API documentation in HTML format.

Included Demos

Documentation

Complete documentation will be added in beta version. Please refer to Prado QuickStart Tutorial and the included API documentation for now.

Credits

Prado Developer Team

Qiang Xue - PRADO founder, author of application controller, core components and controls.
Xiang Wei Zhuo - author of I18N/L10N support, active controls (AJAX) and PRADO javascript framework, unit and functionality testing.
Jason Ragsdale - the PetShop demo, project site maintenance
Marcus Nyeholt - component development and unit testing.
Alex Flint - component development and unit testing.
Brian Luft - documentation and marketing
Carl Mathisen - art design, PRADO v2 maintenance
Alban Hanry - component development
Rodolfo Gonzales - PRADO v2 maintenance
Warren Konkel - PRADO v2 maintenance
John Navratil - PRADO v2 maintenance

Past Team Members

Special Credits To

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 (more details)

Terms and Condition

PRADO is released under the 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.
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