evoCore is the framework at the heart of the b2evolution blogging application.

It is freely available for anyone to use. It is dual licensed so you can choose to use it either under the GNU GPL or the Mozilla MPL license. (b2evo for example is using it under the GPL).

What makes it different?

We realize there are dozens of freely available PHP frameworks out there.

evoCore distinguishes by the fact it doesn't require PHP 5 to work! That's right, evoCore is designed to work perfectly under PHP 4 in order to guarantee your applications can be hosted on virtually any hosting provider, including low cost hosting!

evoCore is also designed to work with MySQL as a back-end. You need no more than the universally available version 3.23, but evoCore can take advantage of advances features of MySQL versions 4 and 5.

What does it do?

• MVC (Model View Controller) architecture
• A taste of AJAX (everybody likes buzzwords right?)
• A taste of XML (the perfect buzzword with no meaning behind it)
• Load balancing with shared nothing architecture
• Session handling (accross multiple servers / DB based)
• User & group management
• Permissions management
• General and user settings management
• File management
• Web stats management
• Scheduled PHP tasks management ("cron jobs")
• Plugin framework
• DataObjects and DataObjectCaches
• Quick Form building
• Quick Result lists building
• Quick list editor building
• and quite a few more little useful things...