Fuse is now Lamplighter!

Fuse has been rebranded (and slightly redeveloped) as Lamplighter.

Lamplighter maintains full backward compatibility with Fuse, but we've made a lot of upgrades, including a rewrite of the database abstraction layer and enhancements to the Data model (among many others).

Fuse will not be actively supported, but the site will remain for historical purposes. If you have any questions, feel free to contact us.

-Jim

FUSE is a Model View Controller framework for PHP. Taking influence from other web frameworks such as Ruby on Rails and CakePHP, then adding in custom, intuitive features of our own design, FUSE has developed into a robust, stable platform for MVC development using object oriented PHP.

We invite you to download and try the FUSE MVC framework to see just how quickly you can get up and running - it should take only a few minutes. With even just a basic understanding of FUSE and Model View Controller architecture, your PHP development time should be immediately reduced by no less than 50%. Once you familiarize yourself with the extensive features and functionality included in the framework, we expect development time to decrease by about 80%. So unless you like your PHP development projects to take as much time as possible, download FUSE now and get started.

FUSE provides a powerful application development engine that allows you to:
  • Rapidly create a working Model/View/Controller structure to properly organize your application
  • Model your database tables (often automatically) to provide application-level access to data without SQL.
  • Offer fully functional create, read, update, and delete functions with only a few lines of code
  • Create a user authentication (login/permissions/privileeges) scheme for your site with just a few lines of code
  • Statically cache pages as HTML (or css, js, etc) for greatly increased site efficiency
  • Route URIs, which eliminates the need for ugly query strings and can greatly assist with SEO
  • Separate HTML presentation from application code with a powerful but easy templating engine
  • ...And much more
Please visit the Download page to obtain a copy.
News

Fuse v2.0 in development
Just wanted to let everyone know that while the 1.x branch of Fuse is still being updated, work has begun on Fuse 2.0, which introduces a lot of updates to the main codebase.

2.0 will be fully backward compatible with all 1.x projects, but offers key features such as:

-DB modules rewritten to make use of PDO
-Query object supports prepared statements
-Large portions of legacy code removed or changed to decrease Fuse's overall footprint
-Templating engine made more efficient
-Pluggable authentication

Fuse 1.3 released
Click Here for the changelog
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Media

Video: Jim Keller shows you how you can go from downloading FUSE to having full Create, Read, Update, and Delete operations on all of your database tables in about five minutes

Click Here to download a higher quality version (AVI format)