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wcmf/wcmf
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The wCMF web application framework

4.1.74(5mo ago)122.4k1[13 issues](https://github.com/iherwig/wcmf/issues)1MITPHPPHP ^8.0

Since Oct 18Pushed 3mo ago4 watchersCompare

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wCMF
----

[](#wcmf)

wCMF (wemove Content Management Framework) is a lightweight Model Driven Development approach to application development based on the MVC pattern. It allows to create any kind of PHP web application, e.g. CRM, CMS from an UML model.

[![Packagist License](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/b22752bb001bc32bced9ee06eb87691bea72c681599bae54f30a6477adcb6151/68747470733a2f2f696d672e736869656c64732e696f2f7061636b61676973742f6c2f77636d662f77636d662e7376673f7374796c653d666c61742d737175617265)](https://github.com/iherwig/wcmf/blob/master/LICENSE)[![Packagist Version](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/53ce35e4a4e38cd8d09a1dcf8cfcd86cb04711c1fec6bfdf7588d673a62bf047/68747470733a2f2f696d672e736869656c64732e696f2f7061636b61676973742f762f77636d662f77636d662e7376673f7374796c653d666c61742d737175617265)](https://packagist.org/packages/wcmf/wcmf)[![Packagist Downloads](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/aadd6c1481ef319ef350e521977655aca64dc43c3f005ab73edde62c9c3a5bcf/68747470733a2f2f696d672e736869656c64732e696f2f7061636b61676973742f64742f77636d662f77636d662e7376673f7374796c653d666c61742d737175617265)](https://packagist.org/packages/wcmf/wcmf)

Features
--------

[](#features)

- Full featured object [persistence layer](http://wcmf.wemove.com/latest/persistence.html):
    - Flexible [mapper](http://wcmf.wemove.com/latest/persistence.html#pers_mappers) architecture with adapter to RDBMS
    - Optimistic and pessimistic [object locking](http://wcmf.wemove.com/latest/persistence.html#pers_concurrency)
    - [Searching](http://wcmf.wemove.com/latest/persistence.html#pers_search) using template based object query and criteria API
    - Query caching and [eager relation loading](http://wcmf.wemove.com/latest/persistence.html#pers_builddepth)
    - [Transaction](http://wcmf.wemove.com/latest/persistence.html#pers_tx) support
- [Role based permission management](http://wcmf.wemove.com/latest/security.html#sec_authorization) (for actions, types, instances, instance properties)
- [Event system](http://wcmf.wemove.com/latest/presentation.html#pres_events)
- [Dependency injection](http://wcmf.wemove.com/latest/configuration.html#conf_di) support
- Configuration based [routing](http://wcmf.wemove.com/latest/presentation.html#pres_routing)
- [Smarty Template Engine](http://www.smarty.net/) integration
- [Lucene Search Engine](http://framework.zend.com/manual/1.12/en/zend.search.lucene.overview.html) integration
- [I18n/L10n](http://wcmf.wemove.com/latest/i18n_l10n.html) support
- Flexible logging ([Monolog](https://github.com/Seldaek/monolog), [log4php](https://logging.apache.org/log4php/))
- [SOAP and REST interfaces](http://wcmf.wemove.com/latest/presentation.html#pres_apis) supporting CRUD operations on all objects
- [Eclipse MDT/UML2](http://wiki.eclipse.org/MDT-UML2) compatible [code generator](http://wcmf.wemove.com/latest/model.html#Generator)
- [Dojo](https://dojotoolkit.org/) based [default application](https://github.com/iherwig/wcmf-default-app) for content management

License
-------

[](#license)

wCMF is available under an open source license ([MIT License](https://github.com/iherwig/wcmf/blob/master/LICENSE)).

###  Health Score

49

—

FairBetter than 95% of packages

Maintenance58

Moderate activity, may be stable

Popularity24

Limited adoption so far

Community17

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity84

Battle-tested with a long release history

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 99.7% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~44 days

Recently: every ~137 days

Total

85

Last Release

154d ago

Major Versions

1.1.14 → 4.1.142018-06-04

PHP version history (5 changes)4.0.0PHP &gt;=5.3.0

4.1.0PHP &gt;=5.6.0

4.1.27PHP &gt;=7.0

4.1.53PHP ^7.0 || ^8.0

4.1.56PHP ^8.0

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/b3c0e050334a3a672f0dfe6bb9689e4f39342753138483734f77aef5e8df7cc7?d=identicon)[iherwig](/maintainers/iherwig)

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Top Contributors

[![iherwig](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4047032?v=4)](https://github.com/iherwig "iherwig (1150 commits)")[![eherwig](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/17319787?v=4)](https://github.com/eherwig "eherwig (1 commits)")[![f3l1x](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/538058?v=4)](https://github.com/f3l1x "f3l1x (1 commits)")[![OndraM](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/793041?v=4)](https://github.com/OndraM "OndraM (1 commits)")

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Tags

application-frameworkframeworkmddmodel-driven-developmentpackagistphpphp-frameworkwcmfframeworkmvcmodel-drivenwcmf

###  Code Quality

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