PHOCOA (pronounced faux-ko) is a web application framework for PHP. It is an object-oriented, event-driven, componentized, MVC (model-view-controller) framework inspired by Apple’s Cocoa and WebObjects technologies.
PHOCOA’s primary intent is to make developing web applications in PHP easier, faster, and higher-quality. The framework handles most of the “dirty work” of web application development by providing infrastructure for all of the common tasks. Most of your time writing PHOCOA apps will be spent designing your GUI and writing application-specific logic rather than dealing with form data, database calls, etc.
Yet another framework which focus 100% on PHP5 features to bring the best to web frameworks in PHP. You can find many examples of using this great framework so you can explore the different usage of implemented widgets such WFTextField, WFTextArea, WFHTMLArea, WFSelect, WFJumpSelect, WFRadioGroup with WFDynamic WFRadio’s, or Putting it all together in a simple form with multiple widgets. There is also advanced widgets such Pagination, Formatters …
Some of the features of PHOCOA are :
- Separation of Model, View, and Controller (MVC) layers
- Form State Maintenance
- Data Persistence (via Propel)
- Automatically keeps UI and Data objects in sync without writing code
- Web Site Skins / Themes
- Data Pagination and Sorting
- Data Normalization, Validation, and display of Errors
- Web Application Configuration and Deployment (Development vs. Production, easy to use with Version Control)
- Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure
- Component Re-Use, both within and between applications
- Search-Engine Friendly URLs
