New PHP Framework
 

That's really all you need to know for now, subscribe to the announcement letter and you'll see more when we're going live.

Web Gear PHP Development Platform

Signed up, can't wait :)

Signed up!

Signed up. Is this yours?

Yes, it is mine.

Thanks for signing up guys. I've forgot to mention that your e-mail addresses will be used for a one-time only notification (when the website will be launched, along with the platform). After that, all the e-mails will be deleted (from my database). So you can stop worrying about spam :P

Well you be accepting community contributions?

Not in the first phase. Mainly because the platform will be launched under a proprietary license. It will be free, open source, modifications will be allowed, but the base system (the one you will download from the website) will not accept community contributions. Additional libraries written by the commnunity, however, will be taken into account, reviewed, and will be downloadable as 3rd party libs, under the author(s) copyright.

Well by the looks of it, it looks like it's going to be great! (wordplay FTW - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

Signed up and waiting!

I'd love to see this as an open source project (fully open source, community driven) but will still probably take a looksee at it when you release the code. Can you give us any more information on the framework, expected release schedule, intended audience(s), etc.?

Yes, I'm also interested in some more information about this

Well, I'm planning to finish & launch version 0.1 sometimes by the end of november, hopefully. As for the audience, any web developer with taste for quality code and well implemented design patterns will appreciate it. If you have more questions, please ask and I'll try to answer them all.

Will you be the only developer? What kind of libraries can we expect to come with it?

I'm going to be the only developer, yes.

Libraries that have been written and are to be expected in the first release include:
- database handling (based on PDO, implementing the Active Record pattern -- still need to handle the object relations)
- config library (ini based and XML based)
- logging library
- session library (featuring namespaces)
- php-based template parser, plus a Smarty "hook" (can easily be extended)
- authentication library (similar to Zend_Auth)
- input filtering
- upload handler
- localization
- URI library, for php-based URL rewriting

I might also add a Thumbnail library, a watermarking library and a FTP class.

seems a good idea i will sign up ;)

hey, I have just created a framework too, I have mention it the other post, hope to see your framework release soon, and we can share some ideas!

Beta version released:

http://www.webgear.ro/
http://www.webgearsoftware.com/

I just got 7 identical emails about this... Anyways it looks interesting I'll be sure to take a look!

Ok I just got 10 more identical emails about this, do you have a cron job you need to fix?

I've just looked through the source and I must say I like it very much, makes good use of all of PHP5's OO features. How ever, the licensing may present problems.

Sorry abut the little spam there, I realised too later that the server I was using had some problems sending alot of emails. The queue just filled with some crap and I had to repeat the procedure a couple of times. The problem is now fixed. You'll not receive any additional emails.

@Enfernikus: what about the licensing? The license I'm currently using it's a Creative Commons. And it will remain that way for the community edition (that's the only one available atm, anyway). The point is I invested alot of time in this product so it would be available for home users, who just want to create their own free projects, at the same time being available for commercial purposes, but under a contract. That's the natural way: if you make money using my product, you must pay for that product.