Zoop 1.5

Zoop is a recursive acronym which stands for Zoop Object Oriented PHP Framework.
The Zoop Framework is stable, scalable, and portable. Far from being Yet Another PHP Framework or Rails clone, its been in development since 2001 and in production use for the last 6 years in a number of different environments. Its designed to be fast, efficient, modular, and extensible.
Although it predates the recent proliferation of PHP MVC frameworks, it not only supports but encourages separation of display, logic and data layers.
With Zoop an inexperienced coder can make secure web applications quickly. More experienced coders will appreciate the design and flexibility. Both will benefit from the shortcuts it provides to handle common and mundane tasks.
Zoops integrated error handling can be easily configured to log errors for production environments, and is also highly informative and readable which makes bugs easy to find and squash.
The Zoop Framework is inclusive, cooperating with and containing components integrated from some existing projects including Smarty, the Prototype JS Framework, and a number of Pear Modules.

Main features:>
- A well-organized, fully-featured front controller.
- A Smarty based view layer, enhanced with form generation and rich UI controls.
- Several integrated data model access styles.
- Automation of common mundane tasks.
- Great native libraries and friendly integration with many third-party projects.

Enhancements:
- Zcache now has modular back end, supporting file-based or MemCached caching.
- View and Controller Zcache integration.
- Improved user input filtering.
- guiControl API redesigned and standardized.
- JS Validation provided by Prototype, integrated with back end validation through guiControls.
- FastCGI support.
- PDO now default back end for Zoop DB.
- Full configurable support for mod_rewrite.
- Zoop Create script to generate projects, zones and config from the CLI.
- Better error handling.
- Better security.
- Controller Zones further relationships supporting full ancestry.
- Further integration of View and Controller with new $zone->guiDisplay.
- Introduction of new canonicalizeTemplate function to standardize templating.
- GUI now supports inline template caching.
- Forms2 refined to automate CRUD operations.
- Full soap support through integration of Nusoap component.
- Rewrite of Mail component for better support including sending personalized emails to multiple recipients.
- Application structure cleanup, controller zones can be placed in a zones/ subdirectory.
- Example apps.
- Updated and revised Skeleton app.
- Auth. Providing Authentication and group, role and users based permissions. (beta).
- Simpletest. Provides a standard unittesting framework for Zoop and Zoop based applications.
- Nusoap. Provides full soap server and client.
- Graphic. Outputs PDFs and images from Smarty templates.
- Chart. Extends Graphic to support bar, line and pie charts.
- guiWidgets. Introduced as a simplified version of a guiControl.
- guiWidgets are not tied into a form, nor do they validate, they simply render data into html. An OO approach to designing HTML.
- Full Zcache Rewrite
- Full DB Rewrite