What makes Zoop a unique PHP framework?
Zoop, which contains components from some existing projects, among them Smarty, the Prototype JS Framework, and various Pear Modules, allows coders to use GuiControls and other form widgets offering integrated client-side validation, and includes support for certain PHP and Javascript projects such as the Zend Framework, PHP Doctrine and jQuery. A zone is the core structure of a Zoop application. Each given function of the program is located into a zone. Zoop, which is quite organized, has an easy to manage codebase and features higher and lower level functions. The latter can be used regardless of the structure of the application and even in an application, which is not based on Zoop. An example of such a function is append_to_file($file,$content) which opens a file and appends content to it and which can be used outside Zoop as well. Higher level functions, among them guiControls, which basically represent form widgets, benefit from and depend on Zoop’s zone structure. The validation
