22 March 2011

Rain Framework 2.2 - published

Many improvements and a few structural changes, in this version. Newest updates:

  • each file containing a class has been renamed from class_name.class.php to Class_Name.php
  • file library/rain.functions.php was deleted and all functions inside have been moved to library/functions.php
  • added application/Bootstrap.Loader.php script that manages the work flow of the application
  • improved the management of Ajax calls
  • the functions to manage the user in user.functions.php have been converted to static methods into User class
  • added a Group class to manage groups
  • added a User_Localization class to manage the localization of the users, to get all localization info (address, lat/lng) and to follow the users navigation in the application
  • added Email class (in progress)
  • RainTPL has been updated to the latest stable version 2.6.2
  • Documentation and website updated
Rain Framework is an open source MVC framework for PHP
  • Easy, to install and to use
  • Fast, to build application with high performance
  • Secure, all input are filtered