# PRADO Framework for PHP 5

Version 3.0.0, May 1, 2006
Copyright© 2004-2006 by PradoSoft
All Rights Reserved.

PRADO is a component-based and event-driven framework for Web application development in PHP 5.

Components following the PRADO protocol are highly configurable and reusable. Properties defining the basic features of a component can be configured in specifications, templates or code. New components can be developed by either inheriting an existing component class or composing several components together. The work of using a component amounts to placing the component tag on the page template, configuring component properties, and writing handler functions to respond to component events.

PRADO shares many similarities with ASP.NET and other RAD tools for Windows GUI development, such as Borland Delphi. In particular, it supports event-driven programming, viewstate maintenance, javascript, template, form validations, theme/skin, etc.

## Requirements

The sole requirement for PRADO is PHP 5.0.4 or higher. Please run requirement checker to obtain more detailed requirement information.

PRADO has been tested with Apache 2.0 on both Windows XP and RedHat Linux.

## Installation

After downloading the latest PRADO release file, unpack it to a Web-accessible directory. The installation is done! You will see the following subdirectories,

- framework - contains the core code of PRADO. This directory does NOT need to reside in a Web directory.
- demos - contains several demo applications.
- docs - contains tutorials and documentation.
- requirements - contains a requirement checker script that can check if your system can run PRADO applications.

## Included Demos

- Hello World
- Prado QuickStart Tutorial (contains many small demos)
- Prado Component Writer
- Personal Website (incomplete)

## Documentation

- API documentation
- Quickstart tutorial (PDF)

## Credits

### Prado v3 Developer Team

- Qiang Xue
- Xiang Wei Zhuo
- Jason Ragsdale
- Alex Flint
- Marcus Nyeholt
- Brian Luft
- Carl Mathisen
- Alban Hanry
- Knut Urdalen

### Prado v2 Maintenance Team

- Rodolfo Gonzales
- Warren Konkel
- John Navratil

### Past Team Members

- Todd Patrick
- Pim van der Zwet
- Tim Evans
- John Teague

### Special Credits To

- All PRADO users - great suggestions, feedback and support
- ASP.NET 2.0 for its great inspiration and reference
- All third-party work used in PRADO

## License

PRADO is free software released under the terms of the following BSD license.

Copyright © 2004-2006, PradoSoft (http://www.pradosoft.com)
All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

- Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
- Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
- Neither the name of the developer nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

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