Flexibility with Power

phpLiteFW is a light-weight web framework targeted and facilitating development of web sites and flexible web applications. It was derived from phpOpenFW and has most of the same features, but none of the web application logic. This leaves developers free to create their own logic for the flow of their website or web application. If you like the features phpLiteFW has, but are looking to use a framework with built-in application logic, take a look at phpOpenFW. phpLiteFW is designed to use web standards such as XSLT, XML, XHTML, and CSS to give developers the most flexibility and the most future standards compliant code as possible.

Powerful tools and features

phpLiteFW gives developers the ability to utilize all of the great tools and features of phpOpenFW without all of the application structure. Please see the features page for a complete list. phpLiteFW still requires the XSL and DOM extensions available for PHP5 to utilize the record set list class, form engine, and any other XML transformations. Using XSLT to perform data/view separation is logical since it is a official W3C Recommendation. With that being said, the use of XSLT can be limited to the use of the form engine and/or record set list class, which both have default templates that come bundled with the phpLiteFW framework. This effectively removes developers from being required to write any XSLT Templates. However, if a developer wishes to use XSLT beyond the default templates, he/she can modify the default templates, create new templates, and use XML transformations in any part of their site/application.