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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