In a new post from Builder.com.au today, there's a quick look at the ZNF framework for PHP - a MVC based approach.

The ZNF project has released an update to its open source framework for building PHP 5 enterprise Web applications. The project was created by Alessandro Rossini and Graziano Liberati late last year, taking its initiative from the Apache Struts project — formerly part of Apache Jakarta. Struts is designed for building Java Web applications.

Like Struts, ZNF is based on the well-established Model-View-Controller (MVC) design paradigm, which is being put forward by some as a solution to the problems inherent in building applications for the Web.

They very briefly discuss the concept of MVC and how it separates out the presentation and application layers. It uses PHP5 and XML for the model and things like PEAR::DB, Smarty, and XSL transformations for the model and view portions.