Akelos PHP Framework Features

The Akelos PHP Framework implements many features from Ruby on Rails and some others targeted to coding multilingual applications which need to be distributed in a simple manner.

Akelos Main Goals

  • Improve developer happiness.
  • Speed up the creation of complex web applications writing less code.
  • Provide all the means for creating applications that can run on cheap PHP4/PHP5 hosts and in the developer desktop without complex configurations.
  • Help on the hard task of creating and maintaining applications with data and views in multiple languages.
  • Favor conventions over configurations.

Features ported from Ruby on Rails

Active Record

  • Associations

    • belongs_to
    • has_one
    • has_many
    • has_and_belongs_to_many
    • Finders - not so cool as Ruby on Rails but you can still do
      $Project->findFirstBy('language AND start_year:greater', 'PHP', '2004');
    • Acts as
    • nested_set
    • list
  • Callbacks
  • Transactions
  • Validators
  • Locking
  • Observer
  • Versioning
  • Scaffolds
  • Support for MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite (might work with other databases supported by ADOdb)

Action Controller

  • Filters
  • Pagination
  • Helpers
  • Mime Type
  • Mime Response
  • Code Generation
  • Flash messages
  • URL Routing
  • Response handler
  • Url rewriter

Action View

Additional Akelos PHP Framework Features

  • Multilingual Models and Views
  • Locale alias integrated on URLS (example.com/spanish will load the es_ES locale)
  • Pure PHP support for Unicode (no extensions required)
  • Unit Tested source code using simpletest
  • PHP Code Generators
  • Built in XHTML validator
  • Automated locale management
  • Ajax file uploads.
  • Format converters.
  • File handling using FTPS for shared hosts where Apache runs as user nobody.
  • Distributed sessions using databases.
  • Cache system using a unique interface independent of the medium Database, Files or Memory.