Tekuna is an application container and framework for PHP applications. It provides a stable basis and a generic infrastructure for your projects. Tekuna has a small footprint and will not pollute your codebase with unnecessary stuff. Tekuna provides for PHP what Servlets, XWork and Spring (partially) provide for Java.

Tekuna's Features

• Component-oriented Definition of the Application
• Intuitive Routing of requests to Actions
• Friendly URLs with URI Routing
• MVC Architecure
• PHP Error handling with Exceptions (and thus catchable)
• Separate Request and Response Objects
• Flexible Architecture with Events, Interceptors, Filters and the Application Context
• Integrated Plugin System
• Support for PHAR, clever class loading
• Strict Input Filtering
• Eliminating the Effects of Magic Quotes
• Full UTF-8 Support
• Support for multiple Template Engines

Non-functional Features

• It's Open Source
• Provides a standardized Project Structure
• Improves Reusability
• Fully Unit-tested
• 100 % E_STRICT and E_DEPRECATED Compliant (Produces no Errors, Warnings or Notices)
• Using Features PHP 5.3 (Namespaces, PHAR)
• Combinable with many other Frameworks (e.g. other Templating, ORM, Unit-Testing)
• Object-Oriented Architecture
• Geared to Java Programming and Naming Style