Gecko Toolbox

A PHP Toolbox based on Zend Framework, it provides some components and features to ease RAD, also has a custom implementation of MVC Pattern for programming, but it's 100% compatible with Zend Framework and Zend MVC.

Features

It extends Zend Framework proving the following elements:

MVC Router:

Template Rendering
Config System using Zend_Config
DB Singleton using Zend_Db

Quick DB Authentification module using Zend_Auth
Advanced HTML Form Generation

Form Decorators, Renderers and Templates
Basic Form Controls
Advanced Form Controls:

Ajax Dependant Selects
Date Picker Control

Advanced Form Validation using Zend_Validate
Auto Form creation via independent Builders

Advanced DataGrid Control

Auto Sorting
Pagination
Cell Renderers
Grid Formatters
Independent DataSources (can show grid from a XML, Array, DB, Zend_Db_Table, etc.)

Request Input Filtering (GET, POST, COOKIE)

Filter Plugins:

Strip HTML
Magic Quotes
XSS Filtering
HTML Special Chars

Template System

PHP Code in templates
Template Helpers

XML Generation
HTML Helpers, OO Interface for HTML tags
Security checking vs a Access List (Zend ACL)
Paginator capable of paginating any DataSource
URL Generation Module

Extensibility

Almost all of the classes in the toolbox can be extended, and all elements can accept custom elements provided you use the interfaces provided, for example you can create custom filters and register them for the Request module.

You can create custom DataSources and use DataGrid to show them in a table, use custom Cell Renderers, or Grid Formatters to display data in the grid, or have custom columns.

The form elements are independent you can create a text control add validators and validate user input, or you can use the Form control to add several controls and validate them, and render user errors using a template.

In the wiki examples will be uploaded to use the controls, and using the MVC system if you want to try another MVC pattern for organizing your code.

This Toolbox is a extension of Zend Framework, it's not a complete Framework so if you want to try the examples you need to download the latest version of Zend Framework.