Packfire is a clean and well thought web framework for developers of all walks to scaffold and bring up websites quickly and hassle-free. You'll be surprised at how fast you can build a web application with a pack of fire.
Packfire comes under the long and difficult experiences from the development of web frameworks phpRaise and Samstyle PHP Framework. Many of Packfire's components and features are also based on the designs used in ASP.NET, Java and other popular frameworks.
If you're a fan of anonymous functions and closures, you'll love Packfire. In PHP 5.3, you can take advantage of closures and code-chaining to help write your code in simple and expressive syntax.
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##A word from the Developer
Thank you for visiting Packfire's source code repository. My name is Sam-Mauris Yong and I founded the Packfire framework. Prior to Packfire, I have developed the Samstyle PHP Framework and phpRaise Framework.
###What made you develop another framework?
My primary aim of developing frameworks was to learn. In fact it was through developing frameworks past five years that I learnt much about MVC, Templating, ORM, Database Abstraction, PHPDocs, Git, Design Patterns. I strongly believe that through open source projects, I am able to learn from others, as well as putting up my concepts to help others learn as well. It was open source made me understand the difficulty and importance of the entire Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
Different frameworks target very different problems to form solutions, and different users have very different needs. As I expressed the uniqueness of Packfire on the Singapore PHP User Group's Facebook page, Packfire is: Low footprint, user-intuitive, automation, code generation, strict OOP, RESTful, API-oriented. If you are using PHP 5.3 or higher, you can further empower your development with Closures. Code should be simple to read, as it is now on Packfire. All these uniqueness of Packfire definitely surpasses what other frameworks can offer.
##More information
If you need more information on the source code, do feel free to take a look at the readme.md usage guide in directories within the framework directory. We are still in the process of development and writing more documentation and tutorial for the framework (pssst… do help us with the documentations too!).
##License
Packfire Framework is released open source under the New BSD License.
The Packfire logo and branding, and all works derived and created by the author, Sam-Mauris Yong, are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported. Sharing is welcome when properly attributed, but no commercial use and no derivatives.