The Yet Another Framework (Yaf), PHP extension for developing web applications

Another framework full of thinly veiled global variables:<p><a href="http://uk.php.net/manual/en/class.yaf-registry.php" rel="nofollow">http://uk.php.net/manual/en/class.yaf-registry.php</a>

Since this is a PECL extension, and therefore compiled in C, I would love to see some performance information.

So, apart from being written as an extension (and maybe a little bit faster that way), what's the point of Yaf?

&#62; Yaf require PHP version greater than 5.2.1, and could not run with early version of PHP.<p>No thanks. Closure? Namespace?

[me]# pecl remote-info yaf Package details: ================ Latest 2.1.3 Installed - no - Package yaf License PHP Category System Summary PHP Framework in PHP extension Description Yaf is a PHP framework similar to zend framework, which is written in c and built as PHP extension.<p><pre><code> Windows binaries can be found at &#60;a href="http://code.google.com/p/yafphp/downloads/list"&#62;http://code.google.com/p/yafphp/downloads/list&#60;/a&#62;</code></pre> [me]# pecl install yaf pecl/yaf requires PHP (version &#62;= 5.1.0, version &#60;= 5.3.6), installed version is 5.3.8 No valid packages found<p>So... 2.1.3 doesn't know how to work with 5.3.8. I'm not upgrading to 5.4.0 to test this right now. Any hacks to get around this?

Is the source for this anywhere like GitHub where it can be looked over?<p>EDIT: Appears to be on Google Code: <a href="http://code.google.com/p/yafphp/source/browse/" rel="nofollow">http://code.google.com/p/yafphp/source/browse/</a>

It is interesting that there are no models.<p>This seems to be a glorified front controller integrated with a templating engine.<p>It is really cool that they did this as a PECL extension. I had a PHP framework many years ago that we considered converting to a PECL extension (<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/cep/" rel="nofollow">http://sourceforge.net/projects/cep/</a>).

It kind of reminds me of ASP.NET C# MVC, just glancing at the example page: <a href="http://au.php.net/manual/en/yaf.examples.php" rel="nofollow">http://au.php.net/manual/en/yaf.examples.php</a><p>Not being particularly proficient in PHP, is the 'Class myClass extends baseClass' syntax normal? I've never seen it before.

So use with blitz template engine as is extension<p><a href="http://alexeyrybak.com/blitz/blitz_en.html" rel="nofollow">http://alexeyrybak.com/blitz/blitz_en.html</a><p>You had blazing speed and performance

I'm loving the documentation: <a href="http://us3.php.net/manual/en/yaf-loader.clearlocalnamespace.php" rel="nofollow">http://us3.php.net/manual/en/yaf-loader.clearlocalnamespace....</a>

One of the good things is it is not using the PHP namespace, e.g. use Zend\Controller\Action\HelperBroker;

When did they launch this?

Anyone else see that this looks almost identical to Zend Framework?

Why?

I'll stick to CI, thanks.<p>This smells like another Zend product, and Zend framework was just a pain, in my experience.