Movicon is an open source

Open source

The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...

 web application framework

Web application framework

A web application framework is a software framework that is designed to support the development of dynamic websites, web applications and web services. The framework aims to alleviate the overhead associated with common activities performed in Web development...

 for producing web applications. It is written in PHP and exclusively in functional

Functional programming

In computer science, functional programming is a programming paradigm that treats computation as the evaluation of mathematical functions and avoids state and mutable data. It emphasizes the application of functions, in contrast to the imperative programming style, which emphasizes changes in state...

 code and distributed under the LGPL license.

The name Movicon is a contraction of Model-View-Controller

Model-view-controller

Model–view–controller is a software architecture, currently considered an architectural pattern used in software engineering. The pattern isolates "domain logic" from the user interface , permitting independent development, testing and maintenance of each .Model View Controller...

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Goal

Movicon aims to be light-weight and modular while leaving the programmer in control of the code and its structure. The framework attempts to constrain the user as little as possible and all functions are available in any part of an application, thus removing the explicit separation between models, views or controllers.

History

Development on Movicon began during the year 2009 after the author started testing multiple PHP framework but found them too complex or restrictive.

Movicon 0.3 was released on the 26th September 2009.

Movicon 0.4 was released the 29th March 2011.

Movicon 1.0b was released the 16th September 2009.