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Seagull PHP Framework 285
Seagull PHP Framework
Stable release 0.6.7 / February 23, 2010
Operating
system
Cross-platform
Type Content Management
Framework
License BSD
Website seagullproject.org [1]
Seagull PHP Framework (Seagull) is an OOP PHP software framework for building web, command line and GUI
applications. Seagull uses Model-view-controller design pattern. Many popular PHP applications are integrated
within the project, as are various templating engines, PEAR libs, testing tools and managed library code.
Features
Seagull offers the following key features:
• PHP 4/5 compatible
• compact core framework with complete modules in package
• Model-view-controller pattern
• performance conscious design
• multiple input and output formats
• integrated object-relational mapper for rapid application development
• loosely coupled components, use template engine of your choice, output to multiple devices or CLI
• caching
• localization. Translated into more than 21 world languages.
• integrated PEAR libraries
Modularity
Seagull is an OOP application with an emphasis on modularity. The framework itself consists of a set of base classes
organised according to the MVC design pattern that take care of permissions, authentication, sessions, i/o and
database abstraction layer. Each generalised area of functionality comes in the form of a module.
Most task-specific functionality comes from libraries, quite often from PEAR, that can be independently updated
when upgrades/improvements are available
Each object in the application (Member, Group, Property, Document, Article, etc) is represented as an entity,
developers are provided with tools to quickly prototype entities so that skeleton classes are created and updated
automatically