Akelos Framework

今天在 Rails-inspired PHP frameworks 裡面看到有人留了一個支援多國語言的 Akelos Framework。

Akelos Framework 就像 CakePHP 一樣，是把 Ruby on Rails 搬到 PHP 上來的 MVC Framework。

目前還沒有正式釋出，但列出來的東西還真不少。

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

• Templates (using Sintags)
• Web 2.0 javascript using prototype and script.aculo.us
• Helpers
• Partials
• Template Compilers

Additional Akelos Framework Features

• Multilingual Models and Views
• Locale alias integrated on URLS (example.com/spanish will load the es_ES locale)
• Database migrations using DB Designer files
• Pure PHP support for Unicode (no extensions required)
• Unit Tested source code
• Code Generators
• Built in XHTML validator
• Automated locale management
• Clean separation from HTML and Javascript using CSS event selectors.
• Ajax file uploads.
• Format converters.
• File handling using SFTP for shared host running Apache as user nobody (as most CPanel server do).
• Distributed sessions using databases.

而 Rails-inspired PHP frameworks 的作者先前還很興奮的寫了一篇「Akelos Framework: too good to be true?」，但是玩過之後似乎有點失望，因為實在跟 CakePHP 太像了。

不過我覺的差別還是有的，像 Template engine 就是用自製的 Sintags，雖然是採 WYSIWYG，但是功能感覺就陽春不少。

至於 AJAX 則還沒有看到，但也是我最想看的地方。不過看起來目前的進度都還在製作當中，並沒有正式提供下載，有興趣嘗鮮的人就從官方的 SVN 下載下來玩看看吧。

Akelos Framework:
http://www.akelos.org/