FuelPHP
open-source web application framework
FuelPHP is an open-source web application framework written in PHP which implements the HMVC pattern.
History
The FuelPHP project commenced in October 2010, with its major contributors being Harro Verton, Jelmer Schreuder, Dan Horrigan, Philip Sturgeon and Frank de Jonge. In November 2013, Steve West joined the development team. Philip Sturgeon and Dan Horrigan had contributed to the CodeIgniter framework.
Major releases
The first version of FuelPHP (FuelPHP 1.0) was developed under the GitHub repository named Fuel. Another GitHub repository named FuelPHP was created for the development of the second version (FuelPHP 2.0).
Project guidelines
The project guidelines are to build a framework based on the best ideas from other ones. The framework must provide powerful functionalities, it must be easy to work with, and it should have a lightweight codebase that takes account of community developers' orientations.
Architecture overview
FuelPHP is written in PHP 5.3 and requires at least version 5.3.3 of PHP for version 1.x.
Cascading File System (inspired by Kohana framework): a directory structure partially based on namespaces used by classes.
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