Chyrp appears to be a light weight blogging engine, done in PHP/mySQL (some Ajax) and is “loosely based on the MVC design pattern.”. It’s been recently upgraded. I don’t like the fact you need to give an email for a live demo, but at least you can download the code.

Chyrp is a blogging engine designed to be very lightweight while retaining functionality. It is driven by PHP and MySQL (with some AJAX thrown in), and has a pimpin’ theme and module engine, so you can personalize it however you want.

John Gruber picked up on this (and so did i) that Cameron Hunt switched from Tumblr to Chyrp, an interesting endorsement.

According to Derek Allard, CodeIgniter 1.6.0 “beta” is available and he’s giving a hint for additional (and bigger) updates in the near future. I’m glad to hear this, since CodeIgniter is my favorite PHP framework. Can’t wait to take a crack at it.

Although i’m a Codeignitor and CakePHP fan, i always like to bookmark interesting php frameworks. Simplicity uses EXT, seems to have a nice setup utility among other things…

Simplicity PHP Application Framework is an advanced, scalable and extensible PHP application framework to aid developers in creating high traffic, high availability Web 2.0 online applications. Integrating a solid MVC framework with some of the best Open Source projects around Simplicity aims to assist developers with any amount of experience in taking their applications to a new level.

[ via Ajaxian ]

Found this on a link site, bookmarking for later. “Yet Another Multicolumn Layout” (YAML) is an (X)HTML/CSS framework for creating modern and flexible floated layouts.

Smashing Magazine has another list post of software frameworks covering most of the popular frameworks of php, rails, javascript, etc. Most of these follow the Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture.

It’s not a complete list by any means, as additional frameworks are mentioned in the comments. But it’s a nice readable list to skim, and worthy of bookmarking.

AMFPHP is a free open-source PHP implementation of the Action Message Format (AMF). AMF allows for binary serialization of Action Script (AS2, AS3) native types and objects to be sent to server side services. Apparently people have adapted it for use with Wordpress, CakePHP, and other frameworks.

PHP rapyd framework, nice “add-on” for Codeignitor. It’s as “sub-framework”, and also a “component repository”.

Kohana is a PHP5 framework that “uses the Model View Controller architectural pattern. It aims to be secure, lightweight, and easy to use”. Claims to have come from CodeIgnitor, which is my current framework of choice, so i’m bookmarking to check out later.

I’m trying to build neat lists of various things for better reference… starting with CSS Frameworks. I’ll try to update this post with any new found links.

I use CSS Frameworks - not for all situations, but using them more often for sure. While I have created my own, I wanted to compile a list of pre-written ones on the web for reference. If anyone knows of a good one to add, drop a comment. Also you might want to check out the conversation Jeff Croft is having about this.

• Yahoo! UI Library: Grids CSS
• Tripoli
• blueprintcss