Chicoco Framework

Chicoco framework is a small, fast, and easy to use MVC framework written in PHP.

Why other MVC framework for PHP ?

Basically, because the current fast frameworks are very difficult to understand unless you have experience working with this type of applications.

What provide ?

Chicoco framework provide the basic structure to create web site and web applications using MVC.

• Separate the "business logic", database access and display (MVC)
• Easy to use for shell scripting
• Full object oriented
• Sanitization of external variables by default (Get, Post, Request)
• Nice database abstraction based on PDO
• HTML Email class
• Log class (through syslog and database)
• Session class
• Aliases
• And more ...

Structure

Chicoco framework directory structure is organized as follow:

• conf/ : This directory contains the Application.ini file with the configuration directives
• controller/ : This directory contains the classes with the business logic
• core/ : This directory contains the chicoco framework main files
• layout/ : This directory contains the generic headers used to render the controller's views
• model/ : This directory contains the classes for database access
• public/ : This directory is the document root for the web site/application
• view/ : This directory contains one directory for the view files for each controller