aurora framework is a slim modular MVC framework written in PHP 5.2+ for rapid development of Web or console applications featuring an integrated database API, template logic, pretty URLs, internationalization, caching, data models, and a multi-layered file tree. License: GNU General Public License v2 Changes:
Signals (active and passive events), an integrated test framework for unit testing, and a much nicer command line interface for ama were introduced. Two new alternative template syntaxes were added for commands and translation-vars. ama has been improved and raised to 0.4. Speed was improved, and some bugs were fixed.

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