Ian Maurmann on 03 May 2013

  Pith 0.5.5.0

The main addition in this release is the new Highlighter Object for displaying highlighted source code in an HTML page.

Other than that there are a few minor fix-ups: fixed an error that sometimes happened while disconnecting from the database; fixed the database error that was happening during the install process; changed the toEntities( ) function in the Filter object to no longer strip out tab chars.

Ian Maurmann on 10 April 2013

  Pith 0.5.4.0

Several major updates to the database object.

Ian Maurmann on 10 January 2013

  Pith 0.5.3.0

Back working on Pith again, this release contains all the added features from this summer that hadn't been released yet. Pith 0.5.3.0 (alpha release 12) adds features to the user system, the admin panel, and the database object.

Ian Maurmann on 04 June 2012

User System

Making progress on the user system for Pith, the next release will include a user session object and a user management area in the admin panel.

Pith PHP Framework

The Pith Framework is an open source web application framework for PHP 5. The goal of Pith is to combine an easy-to-use, "pithy" framework with an admin control panel and CMS.

Pith is still under development, currently in Alpha, and is far from finished.

Features:

  • Most of the framework can be controlled though one variable: $pith
  • A database object for MySQL built on the Mysqli lib that offers easy access to prepared statements
  • A file object, (currently only does INI files though)
  • Secure file storage permissions without ending up in file-permission-hell
  • An email object
  • A built-in admin panel (still under construction but usable for a few things) that will be closely tied to the rest of the framework
  • A user login system (still under construction)

License

Pith itself is released under the MPL (Mozilla Public License 1.1) This means that only the framework's files themselves are copylefted. In the near future new releases might be licensed under the new MPL 2.0 instead.

Pith includes a few things that are licensed separately though:
  • The admin control panel uses jQuery. jQuery's license is MIT, (In Pith, jQuery's copyright notice is intact at the top of its file)
  • The images that Pith uses are licensed under this license (a rewording of the MIT for images) execpt for images with names starting with "stock_image_"
  • The logo of the Pith PHP Framework is retained as a trademark (™) that is allowed only for the use of the Pith PHP Framework.