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Zikula is an application development framework and content management system for building dynamic web sites and apps in PHP.

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Zikula: Framework and CMS

Zikula is a powerful PHP-based application development framework that has content management capabilities built-in. The idea is to expose all the functionality of a typical Application Development Framework, with the up-and-running ease of a traditional CMS.

This is accomplished by building Zikula on top of other development frameworks and implementing a modular approach to feature development.

Notable features of Zikula

Built on top of Symfony and Doctrine

Zikula is a framework riding on top of another framework called Symfony, which includes a set of powerful PHP tools called Doctrine. From a development standpoint, this gives programmers working in Zikula access to a mature, well-documented set of libraries and utilities.

Integrated with Bootstrap and Font Awesome

Twitter Bootstrap is a front-end UI framework for developing modern-looking, mobile-friendly, responsive websites and web applications. It features a responsive grid layout system, an extensive and highly-usable set of CSS styles and markup declarations, and a host of JavaScript interaction enhancements.

Bootstrap has become the most popular front-end framework, and for good reason.

Zikula has built-in support for Bootstrap and its icon system Font Awesome, which makes it very easy to build a contemporary user experience.

Integrated with jQuery

Zikula’s server-side capabilities are built on top of powerful PHP frameworks Symfony and Doctrine. Similarly, its front-end experience is built on jQuery, which provides a wide range of HTML manipulation and DOM-handling capabilities. Zikula’s own built-in features use the library, and so can developers working on a Zikula application.

Module Studio

Zikula is extended through the development of modules. Modules can be created in the Zikula sister project called Module Studio.

Module Studio is a GUI-based Development Environment that provides a Model-Driven-Design approach to rapid development. Rather than hand-coding data structures and component interactions, Module Studio allows a developer to represent these things visually, using a form of UML. Module code is then automatically generated from these models.

Who Should Use Zikula?

Zikula is an interesting project with a lot of potential. It offers powerful tools for web development. The Module Studio project, combined with the front-end capabilities of Bootstrap, could seriously accelerate the pace of iterative development of new and interesting applications.

But it is still fairly new, and it doesn’t “just work” right out of the box. Documentation is a little thin.

This means it likely isn’t right for non-technical people who are just looking for a good Content Management System. Nor is it probably a good choice for mission-critical business support.

Right now, the best use of Zikula is probably rapid prototyping of novel web applications. It is also a good project for people looking to contribute to an interesting Open Source application. It is new enough that there is still room for beginners looking to make a meaningful impact.

Requirements

The only hard requirement for Zikula is PHP 5.3+ (with 5.5 strongly recommended). Most applications built with Zikula will also probably need a database, but this choice is completely open.