====== Web Application Component Toolkit  ======

The Web Application Component Toolkit is a framework for creating web applications.  WACT facilitates a modular approach where individual, independent or reusable components may be integrated into a larger web application.  WACT assists in implementing the [[pattern:Model View Controller]] pattern and the related [[pattern:Domain Model]], [[pattern:Template View]], [[pattern:Front Controller]] and [[pattern:Application Controller]] patterns.

The WACT framework is developed with the philosophy of [[pattern:Refactoring|continuous refactoring]] and [[pattern:unit testing]].  WACT encourages these activities in applications based on the framework.  WACT uses [[php:Simple Test]] as a unit testing framework.

WACT emphasizes writing secure web applications.  See [[security:Web Application Security]] for more information.


===== Documentation =====

[[wact:Documentation philosophy]] describes the relationship between this [[wp>Wiki]] and the API documentation.  [[wact:Obsolete documentation]] contains documentation for WACT version 0.2.

==== Core WACT Programming Concepts ====
  * [[wact:Starting a New Project]]
  * [[wact:File Organization]]
  * [[wact:Using the WACT Development tools]]
    * [[wact:Using the WACT Test Runner]]
  * [[wact:Error Handling]]

==== Tutorials ====
  * [[wact:Case converter tutorial]]

==== General PHP Programming ====
  * [[php:Writing Portable PHP Code]]
  * [[php:Caching]]
  * [[php:i18n:charsets|Character sets and encoding issues]]
  * [[php:i18n:utf-8|Handling UTF-8 with PHP]]

==== PHP Patterns ====
For additional information on patterns in php, see [[pattern:enterprise patterns]] or [[http://phppatterns.com/]].

===== Download =====

The current version of WACT requires PHP 5 and has not been yet been released.  This version is available from Subversion. 

[[wact:How to get WACT via SVN]].

Older versions are available from the [[http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=85372&package_id=88353|WACT file release page]].

===== Support =====
==== Mailing Lists ====

Subscribe to the [[http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wact-announce|Announcements Mailing List]] for major announcements about WACT.
Subscribe to the [[http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wact-development|Development Mailing List]] for help using WACT or to participate in its development.

==== IRC Channel ====

There is a #wact irc channel available on [[http://freenode.net/|FreeNode]].

==== Forums ====
Many WACTors visit the [[http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=147|SitePoint PHP Application Design Forum]]

===== People =====

Learn more about the [[team|WACT Development Team]].

===== Future =====

The WACT [[roadmap]] shows what the future has in store.

===== Contribute =====

[[wact:How to contribute]] to WACT.