appRain is an Open Source Content Management Framework (CMF). CMF is a new web engineering concept where "CMS (Content Management System)" and "Framework" perform together to produce endless varieties of output in a very limited time.

appRain comes in two versions, the QuickStart version, complete with dummy content, and the Core version, an empty installation, on which developers can build there website from the ground up.It is published with lots of extensive features to reduce our development work time.It satisfies both clients and developers with a safe and quality output.

Features of appRain:
CMS Features:
- Custom Site Settings
- Interface Builder
- Page Manger
- Information Set
- Category Set
- Member Management
- Email templates
- Admin Management
- ACLs
- Pre-Configured Blog
- Pre-Configured Store
- Pre-Configured Dynamic Gallery
- Pre-Configured Forum
- Graphic Installer
- Very Well Defined Cache Management
- File Manager
- Rich Text Editor

Framework Features:
- MVC
- Model validation
- Model Installer
- Factory Pattern
- Single Tone Pattern
- EAV
- Search Module
- Caching
- URI Manager
- Helper
- Plug-ins
- Add-ons
- Module (appRain Core Library)
- Magic Method in all module
- Auto load class by Path
- EDP (Even Driven Programming)
- Data Grid
- PDO (Database layer)
- Web Service (Using PHP reflection API)
- Cron Job Setup(Using PHP reflection API)
- Cryptography
- Export Resource outside
- Configure Multi-theme and Multi-User Site
- Configure Multi-Domain site
- Deleted Data Recovery
- Core Configuration

Requirements:
- Apache 2 (Webserver) PHP 5
- MySQL 4 or Higher
- Web server

What's New in This Version:
- Object and Database optimization to improve system performance.
- Inline help in admin panel.
- Suggestion manager in error reporting
- Addon installer and Manage from admin panel
- Drop EAV model from system and introduce auto database table manager.
- Auto database manager for Information set.
- Theme call Back to control system environment
- CSS 360 Grid has consider as a default framework for theme and application UI
- System auto update manager to sync with appRain server and update automatically.