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• A very pragmatic and practical aproach: A Practical Web Framework for Practical People
• Based on a previous experience of more than 17 years of developing web projects, research and experiments using web technologies
• Web oriented approach: to offer a solid and secure platform for building websites or web based applications for Web Clients, Desktops and Mobiles
• Clean Code: MVC code pattern with built-in Dependency-Injection
• Hybrid Architecture: Multi-Tier combined with Middlewares architecture to provide a flexible and responsive web service
• Modular Architecture: support creating reusable modules (there are also many turn-key modules available in Smart.Framework.Modules)
• Full Decoupled Libraries: the framework core is using independent (decoupled) libraries (no 3rd party dependencies)
• NameSpace Separation in modules for: Models, Views, Controllers and Libraries
• Easy to integrate with 3rd party (vendor) libraries
• Native Cloud Server Services (built-in), as module for: WebDAV Server, CalDAV Server, CardDAV Server
• Native Cloud Client Provider (built-in), as library for HTTP/HTTPS access which supports the full range of HTTP(S) Methods / Requests: GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, ...
• Native Router based on smart URL Links: /?page=my-module.sample that can be used as /?/page/my-module.sample or /?/page/sample if (my-module is default bundle)
• Integrates with Apache Rewrite to use SEO friendly links like /sample.html instead of traditional link /?page=my-module.sample or smart link /?/page/my-module.sample/

The primary goal of Smart.Framework is to provide a very practical, fast and secure web framework. Following this philosophy Smart.Framework provides an optimal balance between acceptable coding skills and performance delivered.

It is a lightweight but feature reach PHP / JavaScript web framework, mature and stable, it is being proactively used and tested in several high-end web projects that can really serve many millions of page views per month with a single physical server ! The original software architecture of this web framework allows it to deliver a paradox:

• it have more default built-in features in the code base than the well-known frameworks compared with Symfony, Laravel or Zend Framework
• it delivers much more performance being between 3x to 4x faster (as HTTP Requests / second) compared with Symfony, Laravel or Zend Framework
• when used with Persistent Cache based on In-Memory DB like Redis or Memcache it beats Varnish in many aspects:
  • delivers ~ the same speed as Varnish but allows granulary level caching policy of zones in controllers
  • works also with HTTPS (by example, Varnish does not)
  • caching policies can be controlled to expire based on content / GET or POST variables INPUT even with changing COOKIES

Prefered PHP version is: 8.0 (LTS).

Using a simple controller (no Caching) that Outputs: 'Hello World' The benchmark was running using Apache Benchmark suite with the following command: ab -n 5000 -c 250 http://{localhost}/{framework}/{benchmark-page}   Hardware platform: one physical server (Supermicro):

• 2 x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2699 v4 @ 2.20GHz 64-bit (Total: 44 cores / 88 threads)
• 512 GB RAM, DDR4 ECC @ 2133 MHz
• HDD 2 x 1TB SSD/NVME

Software:

• OS: Debian 11 Linux 64-bit, up-to-date 2022-07-30
• Apps: Apache 2.4.54, PHP 8.0.21 with Opcache enabled

• Smart.Framework v.8.7 head@2022.07.30 with MarkersTPL Templating: ~ 8.887K (8887) requests per second
• CodeIgniter v.4.1 with PHP Templating: ~ 5.38K (5381) requests per second ( 1.3x slower than Smart.Framework )
• Laravel 8.5 with Blade Templating ~ 1.85K (1852) requests per second ( 5x slower than Smart.Framework )
• Symfony 5.2 with Twig Templating: ~ 1.74K (1741) requests per second ( 5x slower than Smart.Framework )