Building on the new functional capabilities available in PHP 5.3, Nephtali provides powerful web development capabilities  within a small web framework.

Defining features

• Functional style (functions are preferred over objects, many framework values are immutable.)
• Novel architecture makes use of micro-controllers (as opposed to the page- or front-controllers) and embedded views, cleanly separating HTML from PHP and empowering designers in the development process.
• Wrapper functions for PDO simplify DB work whilst maintaining control and flexibility.
• The framework all fits within ONE FILE.

What it buys you

Nephtali, while small enough to fit within one file, buys you a bunch, including:

• Automatic input validation.
• Automatic ouput escaping.
• REST-based input validation and html fragment requests are built right in, making AJAX enhancements a snap (you can choose the JS framework of your choice, although a plugin for jquery exists.)
• Debugging built right in to every page (while in debug mode), which allows you to view information on incoming data and any variables you choose to watch.
• Error handling built in to every dynamic region, and if one dynamic region has an error the rest of the page still loads normally.
• Dynamic regions in markup are defined by XML comments, freeing designers to use the editor of their choice.
• Nedit, an online code generator for Nephtali, makes it easy learn and to get things up and rolling quickly.
• Parallel processing of web services requests using the powerful capabilities of CURL.
• Installs in a couple minutes.
• Can add functionality to particular pages or entire directories with ease.
• And, much, much more

Summary

If you’d like to try a novel approach to web development, I hope you’ll give Nephtali a try.  Cpanel appears to be approaching a release that will include PHP 5.3.1, making Nephtali more available in the wild very soon