Vork Framework is an open-source PHP framework. Mainly geared towards performance, Vork is standards compliant at the same time, also coming with a wide array of tools useful in building modern web apps.

Features of Vork Framework:
- Full MVC stack includes layouts & components
- Generates semantically-correct XHTML 1.1
- SEO-optimized smart-URL format
- Automated Section 508 & W3C WAI Accessibility
- Universal database support without abstraction
- Native non-relational database (NoSQL) support
- PHP5 object-oriented E_STRICT source code
- Follows Zend Framework coding standards
- Import from CakePHP, Symfony, ZF & CodeIgniter
- Export objects to Zend Framework & Cake PHP
- Fully-documented in DocBlock standard
- CSS-reset for cross-browser consistency
- Can work with any SQL database or cloud-DB
- Built-in support for multiple master/slave database configurations as well as both NoSQL & RDBMS

Requirements:
- PHP 5.0.2 or Higher

What's New in This Version:
- Updated to output mobile-ready HTML5 by default (instead of XHTML1.1)
- Major upgrade to htmlHelper methods plus added video(), price(), telephone()
- Upgraded formHelper to accept string-based "shortcut" args for basic usage
- Added to formHelper::dateSelect() time & date args + dateSelect property
- Upgraded get::xhtmlentities() to skip-over ASCII (in addition to HTML)
- Added db::keyval() for simplified retrieval of two-column SQL datasets
- Added to filterComponent urlString() and getNumbersOnly()
- Upgraded vork engine for increased project-structure flexibility
- Increased .debug data-capture and verbosity
- Added is::superuser() and load::js()
- Major upgrades to file and account components
- Added validator component