CodeIgniter 1.6.0 Release Approaches, But PHP4 Will Remain Supported

For almost 9 months now CodeIgniter has remained fairly static, seeing only a minor revision or two, but after an excellent catch on the CodeIgniter Forums, news comes from Derek Allard that version 1.6.0 is approaching completion!
Despite this new milestone release, the wise folks over at EllisLabs have decided to continue support for PHP4.
There’s been [...]

Akelos - Yet Another PHP Framework?

I’ve recently wrote about some of my ‘issues’ with the wonderful CodeIgniter PHP Framework.
Whilst looking around for good ruby-on-rails style frameworks for PHP, I came across ‘Akelos‘, A PHP MVC Framework based on Ruby on Rails.

Being a Ruby on Rails port to PHP, Akelos is also designed to make developers lives simpler by resolving complex [...]