Vork Enterprise PHP Framework

Vork is an open-source PHP framework designed for rapid development of performance-oriented scalable applications.

The mission of Vork is to provide an MVC architecture and full-featured toolkit in a gimmick-free no-frills approach without adding overhead, creating slow & unscalable abstraction layers or re-inventing native PHP functionality.

Rapid Application Development

• Native PHP interface with intuitive naming convention, no need to learn new terminology or syntax
• Hello World! in 5-minutes or less with LAMP/WAMP configuration
• Developers that already know PHP can use Vork productively within minutes

Performance-Oriented, Scalable, Green and Economical

• Green-IT: Vork applications serve more traffic with less servers!
• Enterprise-grade Vork platform has no slow abstraction layers or re-invented PHP functionality
• Out-of-the-box response time for a Hello World! including making a database connection is typically just 0.0065 seconds!
• Built-in support for multiple master/slave database configurations with tools to enforce security and increase SQL-statement efficiency
• Automatically loads code & objects that are needed for the instance and not a byte more!
• Vork can be configured to operate without any disk-IO to further reduce load time

Standards-Compliant

• Full MVC stack including layouts and components
• All tools produce valid XHTML 1.1 with semantically-correct markup
• Accessibility is automated as much as possible to meet Section 508 and W3C WAI standards
• Code is open-source, built for PHP 5 and fully documented using the phpDocumentor DocBlock standard
• Universal database support without abstraction layers; ability to easily change database brands at any time
• Object-oriented source code is E_ALL | E_STRICT and adheres to the Zend Framework Coding Standards
• Concise URL format is ideal for search engine optimization (SEO) and is easy to communicate verbally
• CakePHP and Zend Framework objects can be imported into Vork; Vork Helpers and components can be used within Zend Framework and CakePHP
• CSS-reset with default styles to provide cross-browser display consistency verified in Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari (OS X, iPhone & Windows) and IE6, 7 & 8

Extensive Toolset

• E-commerce tools to validate & charge credit cards, accept PayPal payments, get UPS shipping rates, track a package, generate QR codes & more!
• Simplified use of Google tools: Maps, Charts, Analytics, AdSense, Sitemap, Payments, Translate
• Amazon Web Services connection interface with automated caching mechanism
• One-line of code turns any controller or action into a full-featured Wiki including a Wiki search engine
• Forms maintain state automatically + ample tools include a WYSIWYG textarea that produces valid XHTML 1.1 markup and works in every browser
• Internationalization (i18n) - multilingual forms allow users to easily type characters in other alphabets by pressing the phonetically-equivalent English keys
• Integration with all mainstream JavaScript frameworks: YUI, jQuery, Prototype, MooTools, script.aculo.us, Dojo, SWFObject, Ext Core, Chrome Frame
• Universal log-in/log-out/forgot-password utility
• Turn any page of your application into a URL shortening site
• User input validity is verified both in JavaScript (for user-experience) and in PHP (for security) - form validation rules are only written once
• Extensive HTML helper functions including generation of Twitter Tweet links, tag clouds and simplified embedding of Adobe Flash
• Consistent interface to many 3rd-party tools including Meetup event management & sharing boxes like:
• Email tools including outgoing-mail templates that operate like MVC-elements & spam-proof email address display tools
• AJAX tools including inline language translation and simplified data-loading
• Completely automatic SSL-link management to simplify transitions between https:// and http:// pages
• Image management tools to watermark an uploaded image + generate multiple images in different sizes (fullsize, thumbnail, etc.)
• POST utility to simplify connecting to web services
• Effortless media integration including Flickr feeds, YouTube videos and embedding an MP3 player
• Default 404 "not found" page has a Google Search box pre-populated to search your site for content related to the missing page
• RSS layout makes it easy for any PHP array to become an RSS 2.0 or Atom feed; RSS reader makes quick work of syndicating feeds
• Debugging tools that output to your Firefox Firebug console

Requirements

• PHP - any version between 5.0.2 and 5.3.x
• A database is optional and any database or cloud-DB that is supported by PHP will work with Vork
• Works on any web server (Apache, Microsoft IIS, etc.)
• Works with any operating system (Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, etc.)
• Integrated caching through any package with a PHP interface (Memcached, etc.)