DooPHP's demo application section is up!

There are 4 demo apps for the moment each focus on its own scope seperately. Do check the demos as it can help you get started with DooPHP easier.

URI Routing

This demo helps you to get started with routes in DooPHP. You will learned how to use and define different type of routes in DooPHP.

REST Client/Server

This demo helps you to get started with Controllers in DooPHP. You will learned how to use the Controller for REST API, redirection, parameters, extension name, etc. You will also learn how to use DooRestClient to make RESTful requests.

Template Engine

This demo helps you to get started with the template engine in DooPHP. You will learned how to use the template syntax for outputing variables, arrays, objects, looping, template tags and embedding template files.

Database ORM

This demo helps you to get started with the Models in DooPHP. You will learned how to use the generated Models and use them to do CRUD and more complex DBRMS operations.

You heard it right! DooPHP 1.0 source code is released! Go ahead and download the framework source. 4 demo applications are included in the package, so please check them out.

The app folder in the archive file is where you should start developing your application. It is the base of a DooPHP project.

Please ask your questions and report any bugs you encounter at the forum

Have fun with DooPHP!

Just in case you missed it, I will post the benchmark results here.

Please take a look at the benchmark page where details are explained. Also, do follow DooPHP on Twitter for latest tips & tricks and updates. Thanks!

Updated: One thing to mention is that the frameworks tested are the latest by July 12, 2009, CodeIgnitor 1.7.1, Yii 1.1 dev, CakePHP 1.2.3, QeePHP 2.1

DooPHP is the new kid on the block!

You might be asking why another PHP 5 framework? Well, I have been using and testing quite some MVC based frameworks in recent years such as Ruby on Rails, CodeIgniter, CakePHP, Qcodo, Akelos, Fusephp, Qeephp, Recess and Yii. Maybe it is just me, but I never really like how the other frameworks work in my daily routine. Yes, i admit I love one or two of the features there but I always have a desire to create my own stuffs.

Hence, after 1-2 months of work, I present you DOOPHP. It is a high performance MVC based PHP framework, yet it's really easy to use with no overwhelming workflows or syntax. The Doo framework might be the fastest open source PHP framework available currently, look at the Benchmark comparison. The framework is around 3-12 times faster than other frameworks, DooPHP is higly capable of delivering incomparably fast page loads.

DooPHP tries to be as lightweight as possible and has a small source code footprint. For example, the URI router is only 197 lines of code, yet it supports auto routing, RESTful requests, redirection, almost-identical-routes, extension names, etc. (it became 421 after documented)! During the framework development, I actually benchmarked various possible approaches when building a module and chooses the fastest for Doo.

Besides being fast, Doophp is also quite feature rich. DooPHP supports some common stuffs found in a web framework, such as MVC structured, RESTful APIS, REST client, URI routing, database ORM tools, model generator, HTTP Digest Authentication, a flexbible compiling template engine, logging & profiling tools, etc.

DooPHP is 100% E_STRICT compliant and it can run on virtually almost any environment. It has been tested on Apache 2.x/1.x servers, Cherokee, lighttpd, in CGI/FastCGI mode as well as using Mod_php(on apache). It works on both Windows & Linux OS.

DooPHP requires nothing other than the standard PHP library. It works well on Shared Hosting environment too! In fact, this website is hosted on a shared hosting account due to lack of fund :)

Last but not least, DooPHP is released under the New BSD license. Go ahead and read more about the framework and the feature list. A guide/tutorial is being written at the moment and will be up soon.