The Serenity Application Platform™ is not an MVC framework in the strictest sense. Serenity AP uses a mixture of procedural and object oriented PHP5 code to make developer's lives easier when migrating or deploying multiple applications in one environment. In short, Serenity AP is the glue for your critical COTS applications.

Serenity AP requires PHP 5.0 or above, and currently can only run on the MySQL database. The DB abstraction layer has hooks for multiple databases, however at this writing the drivers for Oracle, Sybase, MSSQL and Postgresql are still considered alpha, and not production quality.

Serenity AP has been tested on Microsoft IIS 5.0+, Apache 1.3 and 2.0+, and lighttpd. It has been load tested and scaled in a real environment up to 2,000 concurrent users

In this tutorial series we will build some small applications to demonstrate how everything ties in together:

• Setting up the Serenity AP Environment
• Creating the Application
• Editing the index action handler
• Add a bit of style to Hello World with sGen
• Hello Database!

• Setting up your application to use sGen
• Loading the wrapper and setting basic configuration
• Adding Dynamic content
• Loading and printing template files
• Loading dynamic data from a database or array
• Adding widgets to a template
• Parsing URLs and more through plugins

• Coming soon

• Coming soon

• Upgrading to v2008.Summer.1
• Upgrading to v2008.Summer.2
• Upgrading to v2008.Summer.3
• Upgrading to v2008.Summer.4