FuelPHP is an

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written in

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which implements the HMVC pattern.

History

The FuelPHP project commenced in October 2010, with its major contributors bein
Harro VertonJelmer SchreuderDan HorriganPhilip Sturgeon
an
Frank de Jonge
In November 2013, Steve West joined the development team. Philip Sturgeon and Dan Horrigan had contributed to the CodeIgniter framework.

Major releases

The first version of FuelPHP (FuelPHP 1.0) was developed under the

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repository named Fuel. Another GitHub repository named FuelPHP was created for the development of the second version (FuelPHP 2.0).

Project guidelines

The project guidelines are to build a framework based on the best ideas from other ones. The framework must provide powerful functionalities, it must be easy to work with, and it should have a lightweight

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that takes account of community developers' orientations.

Architecture overview

* FuelPHP is written in

5.3 and requires at least version 5.3.3 of PHP for version 1.x. * Cascading File System (inspired b
Kohana
framework): a directory structure partially based on

namespaces In computing, a namespace is a set of signs (''names'') that are used to identify and refer to objects of various kinds. A namespace ensures that all of a given set of objects have unique names so that they can be easily identified. Namespaces ...

used by classes. * Flexibility: almost every component of the core framework can be extended or replaced. *

Modularity Modularity is the degree to which a system's components may be separated and recombined, often with the benefit of flexibility and variety in use. The concept of modularity is used primarily to reduce complexity by breaking a system into varying ...

: applications can be divided up into modules. *

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: additional functionalities can be added to the framework throug
packages

Features overview

* A URL routing system *

RESTful REST (Representational State Transfer) is a software architectural style that was created to describe the design and guide the development of the architecture for the World Wide Web. REST defines a set of constraints for how the architecture of ...

implementation * HMVC implementation *

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parsing Parsing, syntax analysis, or syntactic analysis is a process of analyzing a String (computer science), string of Symbol (formal), symbols, either in natural language, computer languages or data structures, conforming to the rules of a formal gramm ...

: Stags (a specific FuelPHP template engine) and

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are included; drivers for

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, Smarty,

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Jade
an
Dwoo

* Form and data validation features * An Object Relational Mapper (ORM) *

Vulnerability Vulnerability refers to "the quality or state of being exposed to the possibility of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally." The understanding of social and environmental vulnerability, as a methodological approach, involves ...

protections: the framework encodes output, provides

CSRF Cross-site request forgery, also known as one-click attack or session riding and abbreviated as CSRF (sometimes pronounced ''sea-surf'') or XSRF, is a type of malicious exploit of a website or web application where unauthorized commands are submit ...

protection,

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protection, input filtering features, and prevents

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* The Auth package provides a set of components with which

authentication Authentication (from ''authentikos'', "real, genuine", from αὐθέντης ''authentes'', "author") is the act of proving an Logical assertion, assertion, such as the Digital identity, identity of a computer system user. In contrast with iden ...

and

authorization Authorization or authorisation (see American and British English spelling differences#-ise, -ize (-isation, -ization), spelling differences), in information security, computer security and identity management, IAM (Identity and Access Managemen ...

application functionalities can be built. Sentry is another authentication and authorisation package for FuelPHP. * A caching system

Tools

* Profiling and

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: PHP Quick Profiler integration *

Database In computing, a database is an organized collection of data or a type of data store based on the use of a database management system (DBMS), the software that interacts with end users, applications, and the database itself to capture and a ...

migrations tool (inspired by the popular

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framework) *

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(inspired by

framework, Oil package) * Tasks (operations that can be executed through the command line) * Testing:

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integration (Oil package)

References

External links

*
FuelPHP DocumentationFuelPHP BlogFuelPHP ForumFuelPHP V1 source codeFuelPHP V2 source codePHP Quick ProfilerSentry package
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