Just released today: WebMesh Framework 0.13 and WebMesh Newsletter case study. WebMesh Framework is strongly based on PHP5 and proposes a standard structure for PHP projects with intention of

• Force a better organization of the your project classes.
• Encourage the use of the PHP version 5.
• Increase the code reuse level

The framework offer the following features in the latest version:

• Several abstractions to make developer's life easier including : HTTP Encapsulation, emails, collections, image manipulating, I/O facilities, socket encapsulation, UI components and more.
• Implementation of the pattern MVC (Model2) where:
• Model layer can uses persistence package with the dataobject sub package or adaptations for another frameworks
• View layer using Smarty template framework or another framework that you to prefer to integrate in this layer and
• Controller layer using Action classes centralized in one FrontController and some features such as ActionMessages and actions implemented based in the CRUD operations (Apache Struts 1.3.x like)
• Support for i18n using properties files.
• Configured using properties files.
• Provides a persistence API extending the DB_DataObject library of the PEAR repository. Offer persist data in Relational Databases or in a XML files.
• Integration with Smarty (used in MVC implementation), Log4PHP, PEAR and J4avaScript libraries and components.
• Provides WebMesh Newsletter that implements a simple newsletter sender application based in the latest version of the WebMesh Framework (0.13) and serve to understand better how to use this framework.

More information and download at http://webmesh.sourceforge.net/