Note: As of 2009-05-07, CSF is being redesigned and rewritten, taking into account lessons learned through usage in real projects. This page refers to the latest version of CSF, which at the moment may be unstable both in terms of API and usability. Click here to go to the 1.x branch.
CodeScape Framework is very lightweight PHP application framework, with a focus on making it easier to structure code and pull several libraries together with ease. It isn't an all-in-one Rapid Application Development Model-View-Controller framework, and never will be. (It does however come with some useful libraries to get you started.) If you want one of those, popular choices are CodeIgniter, symfony and CakePHP.
The target audience of CSF is projects and/or developers that find this “kitchen sink” style of framework either too bulky or too restrictive. CSF aims to provide a simple way of including libraries written in PHP and pulling them together, and because it's small you won't need to spend long learning it before you can get back to writing your own code.
To get the latest code, clone the Git repository:
git clone git://git.codescape.net/csf.git csf
Tarballs will be added once the code stabilises.