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WASP 3-Tier application framework for PHP

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Fri, 01/20/2006 - 13:29 — Christoph C. Cemper

WASP (Web Application Structure for PHP) is a three-tier framework built on PHP 5.

More and more software engineers are moving from cumbersome "enterprise" languages such as Java and C# to languages such as Python and Ruby and PHP.

Using the OO feature of PHP5, these developers can feel at home in what used to be considered a hacker's language.

Get your WASP-Intro in Simplify PHP Development with WASP

and make sure your read the WASP basic concepts article released a month earlier.

In fact it's a nice mixture of existing frameworks:

  • PEAR::DB_DataObject as a database abstraction layer
  • Smarty as a template engine for PHP intended to separate the content from the presentation in a web page – and this one is GREAT!

So actually they are just using the PEAR::DB_DataObject for the business logic and Smarty for display logic.

Another nice read on this topic is on the myth that PHP does not scale :-) ... obviously it DOES scale and I wouldn't wait a second to choose between Java and PHP for building a new web application…

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