Madcow is the PHP web framework that leaves your application alone and only focuses on binding components together.
The project is currently in its early birth. The source code is now available on Github.
Madcow takes care of configuration, URL routing and page templating.
It is a MVC framework that allows you to write your application in your own way. You use Madcow to tie it all together as a web application.
Written in PHP 5. Comes with a Smarty view. Configuration in YAML.
A SQL database model will be available coming soon.
Madcow is a product of a web site I have been working on for the last year. One of the requirements of the project was to write the web application in PHP. Since none of the current PHP web frameworks, that I could find, were flexible enough for this project, I started on scratch.
It started out as a single project, but at a period of the project, it became clear to me that the infrastructure of the application should be factored out to a new library.
Madcow is very much inspired by the Perl web application framework Catalyst. What I like most about Catalyst is the support for chained actions, multiple models and multiple views. And because of that, these things are what I have focused on and implemented in Madcow.
The license of Madcow is a MIT compitable license.
Madcow is developed by Knut-Olav Hoven.
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