aint framework

I remember reading on some of Symfony’s web sites that Zend Framework was only a library and not a framework.

What makes frameworks special? Wiki states:

• a framework has a default behavior. It should be trivial to start a typical app using a framework
• non-modifiable framework code
• flow of control. things such as dependencies management are dictated by the framework
• extensibility

I think these four can be rephrased into one: with enforcing a particular program flow, a framework offers a ready-to-use code base to address typical tasks, for example web apps.

There are also some side-effects of being a framework, such as:

• the way a framework is written has a big impact on the implementation of apps using it
• communities are gathered around frameworks, there are T-shirts and conferences
• contributions to a framework are respected

aint framework

is a framework for functional and procedural programming in PHP that I created to follow up on some of my ideas and illustrate them

Functional PHP
Testing static dependencies
Dependencies management without OOP

The following resources are available:

• Online documentation: https://aint-framework.readthedocs.org
• Source code: https://github.com/aintframework