Introduction

The Stratos PHP Framework is an open-source, object-oriented web application framework for PHP. The goal of Stratos is to provide an extensible framework that is easy to learn, use, and configure. It was created by Joshua Carnett and Larry Kubin and has been a SourceForge.net project since May 13, 2006.

What can it do for me?

• Improves development speed
• Enables development of maintainable PHP web applications
• Features include:
  • Separation of business/domain logic (actions) and presentation logic (views)
  • Web-based configuration using the Stratos Control Panel
  • Active record pattern implementation for most relational database systems, providing an object-oriented interface to the data source through data objects
  • Caching
  • Authentication and Authorization
  • Ajax support and Dojo javascript toolkit integration
  • Automatic REST-style web services for actions in your application
  • Plugin architecture that supports lazy loading of application functionality
  • Error logging
  • Scaffolding
  • Clean URLs
  • "Smart" defaults to minimize configuration
  • Compatible with PHP 4 and 5