PRADO is a component-based and event-driven programming framework for developing Web applications in PHP 5.

You will need a Web server supporting PHP 5.1.0 or higher to run PRADO-based applications.

Features:

• DB access: added three layers of database support serving for different needs. They include PDO-based data access, Active Record and SQLMap. 


• Active Controls: these are AJAX-enabled Web controls which make creating an AJAX-enabled Web page extremely easy. 

Other major new components:

Services:
- TSoapService: a service component supporting SOAP requests
- TJsonService: a service component supporting JSON requests
- TFeedService: a service component supporting feed requests
Modules:
- TDbCache: a generic DB cache module that can use any DB driver
- TDbUserManager: a DB-driven user manager module
Controls:
- TOutputCache: a control enabling fragment page caching
- TClientScriptLoader: a control for loading JavaScript libraries
- TXmlTransform: a control performing inline XML transformation
- New demos and tutorials, including "address-book", "blog-tutorial", "northwind-db", "chat", &qump;quot;,cy-converter", "quot;, "quot;