The RDS Framework is a web development framework written in PHP, and the framework is based on the MVC model.
The structure of the framework is ideal for web application and enables you to easy share your work with other users, ill explain that a little further.
Easily share your work
When you work with the RDS Framework you are making components and modules. Every component and module has its own MVC structure inside it. When you are done writing your component (blog component for example), you can easily share it with other users.
There are also some extensions (components, modules, etc) available for rapid web development.
Structured for web applications
The framework is structured for web applications. For example the media folder (images, css, js) are all in one convenient folder of the system, and separate from all the template files. This mean you can eaily move all your files to a CDN when your website grows.
Another point is the multi language support. The system allows for easy multi language support with different template files, or just with different .ini files.
Everything is build for a good SEO strategy (pretty urls etc).
Normal HTML, PHP and SQL Queries
When you are working with the framework you are just going to use normal PHP and SQL queries in your controllers and models. In the views you are only going to write HTML.
This means no special way of making this work. The framework is structured in such a matter that you only have to know your basic languages. There is no special format needed to do all your work.
This makes it a powerful framework because you are dealing with raw code!
For a better understanding take a look at the video tutorial and read the documentation.
website: http://www.rdsframework.com
videos: http://www.youtube.com/rdsframework
PHP developers
For those of you who want to take a look at the most recent code and help with the development take a look at our Git repository.
Git: http://www.gitorious.com/rdsframework
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However, my more recent column on vegans seems to have stirred up some very passionate and rather abusive herbivores. It’s a bit like being heckled by a hamster. Ironically, it ended up proving my thesis entirely. They just don’t get the joke. (There was a letter from a very nice vegan lady who invited me to attend Goveg meetings. She was the one well-balanced exception and her argument was passionate but reasonable). As for the others, they were rabid!
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