Hi all, I sent an E-Mail before a while about the PIWI project. Meanwhile a lots of improvements have been done and I would like to point you to the project again.
PIWI is a transformation framework written in PHP. It uses lots of ideas and concepts from Cocoon and esspecially Forrest. Its current project site can be found here: Project: http://code.google.com/p/piwi/ Docs and Demo: http://www.piwiframework.de/ Its completly implemented under the Apache License. Current features are: - Crawler for static content generation - Forms (easy create web forms and assistants) & Form Validation - Serializer: HTML, PDF (with non-ASL software), Excel (very basic), XML, Word (very basic too) - Internal PIWI-Format has been changed to a subset of XHTML - Generators and Connectors (Generate XML from within other XML-Structures; Connect a Generator to Databases) - Authentification - Custom XML tags with custom XSLT stylesheets - Easy upgrading from previous versions - Caching of content to reduce processor time - Easy template creation for cool layouts :-) - Localization (just with telling in the site.xml which pages are written in which language) - Menu-Generation - DataGridGenerator (generate html tables out of SQL-Statemnts) and so on. You can see most features in action at http://www.piwiframework.de/. Several things have to be done, but at the moment we consider the project as feature complete. We plan to wait a while and fix occuring bugs or feature requests and then walk towards a version 1.0. We also would like to write some more user docs. It would be great to get some feedback of you guys. I think PIWI would perfectly fit to the Forrest project and we might be interested in this. I strongly believe that Apache needs a web framework in PHP. If you guys think so, let us know. Any help or ideas here are highly appreciated. Best regards, Chris.
