Akelos is a PHP4 and PHP5 port of Ruby on Rails PHP framework for developing database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller pattern. From the Ajax in the view, to the request and response in the controller, to the domain model wrapping the database the Akelos PHP Framework gives you a pure-PHP development environment built upon programming best practices. To go live, all you need to add is a database and a web server. Akelos PHP Framework is designed for PHP developers who want to enjoy writing web applications and Ruby on Rails developers who need to code in PHP. It allows developers to write multilingual web applications easily as well. It lets you write beautiful PHP Code by favoring convention over configuration.

Requirements: Web Server and Database
Demo: http://www.akelos.org/screencasts
License: LGPL License