Smart Framework

What IS Smart Framework?

• An extension of Zend Framework whose purpose is to shorten time spent with development of web application fundamentals.

• While individual components of Zend Framework are isolated from each other, Smart Framework forms a prepared, very flexible and extensible infrastructure built on them.

What IS NOT Smart Framework:

• It is not a Content Management System (CMS), but it is possible to build this type of program using it!

• It is not a competitor to the Zend Framework, but an extension which offers more functionality and enhances the development time.

How does the Smart Framework work?

• SF uses it's own library and Zend Framework's libraries to "lead" the application runtime and to process all tasks that are common for the web application "lifetime":
• Loading of configuration and setting up MVC
• Connecting to a database (setting up an ORM)
• User authentication and authorization
• Selection and loading of correct language version
• Selection and loading of correct graphical style

• Significant part of the infrastructure forms a complex hierarchical configuration system that can be used to set up and customize whole framework and developed application.

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