Documentation

Introduction

• Understanding Pluf, introduction and concepts.
• Performance compared to other frameworks.
• The dispatch loop, how a view is called based on the URLs definition and other settings.
• Installation of Pluf.
• Files layout of a Pluf application.

Components

• The templating system to write HTML, XML or simple text.
• URLs definition without any constraints.
• The database ORM, more.
• The migrations to install/remove/upgrade/downgrade an application.
• Internationalization to translate your application in multiple languages.
• Testing and unit testing to write simple, elegant and bug free code.
• Default configuration settings.
• The paginator to list records in tables.
• The cache framework to cache data.
• Form handling.
• Upload files with a Pluf_Form object.
• User profile to add details to a Pluf_User object.
• Signals to have communication between applications loaded in the same project.
• Logging to log events in your system, with a high performance remote logger (350log/s).

Code Reference

• Automatically generated code reference.

Examples

• Minimalist Hello World application.
• Simple Todolist application.
• A very nice code example is InDefero, feel free to inspire yourself from it to develop your own application.

For the moment, the minimal version of PHP to use Pluf is PHP 5.2.4. It is also working nicely with PHP 5.2.0 (the current version in Debian Etch) at the exception of some of the templating functions.

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If you find errors or issues in the documentation, report a bug. We will update the documentation accordingly.