Fuel

I wanted to get the start of a Road Map out there for you, so you know what is coming.  Now, keep in mind these things may change, as it is still early.  I also say “start of a Road Map” because there are some things I simply don’t know yet.

So here goes:

• Super compatible on as many servers as possible.  It already supports Apache, IIS, and Nginx.  Still need to test it on some other ones.
• Modular HMVC.  It is already HMVC, you can already create new requests (inside the same HTTP request) to other controllers/methods.  Want to add modular routing.
• A full (real) ActiveRecord Pattern.
• Everything is autoloaded.
• Everything in the core is extendable.
• Cascading File System (credit to Kohana for this one)
• Template Controllers
• REST Controllers (with auto-format detection)
• All sorts of “Helper” classes (e.g. HTML, Form, etc.)
• Awesome documentation.

I will be posting up some more later, but that is it for right now.  Check back soon.

What started off as Carbon, quickly became Thrust, and now is Fuel.  The 3rd time is the charm.  Let me explain a bit as to why the name changes.  When I started writing the framework I called it Carbon.  I loved the name, and seemingly so did everyone else.  However, someone pointed out to me that there was already a framework called Carbon.

So, I had to quickly think of a new name.  I did so without consulting anyone (dumb move).  I changed the name to Thrust.  That sounded good at the time, but shortly after doing it, I realized (as did everyone else) that the name sucked.

So, I left it up to the community.  A few people suggested some names, so I put up a poll.  We had a good number of people vote within a short period of time.  It was obvious what the people wanted (and what I wanted).  The final name is Fuel.  I will not be changing the name again.  Below are the new links that you can use.  I apologize for the 3 name changes in 3 days, but this should be it.

Website: http://fuelphp.com

Twitter: @fuelphp

GitHub Repo: http://github.com/fuel/fuel

UserVoice: http://fuelphp.uservoice.com

I would like to thank everyone for their support thus far.  I am positive that together we can come up with an awesome framework.

I will be posting up a Road Map within the next day.