PRADO PHP Framework Here's a powerful-looking new framework for PHP5 that has built-in support for Prototype, Script.aculo.us, Rico, and a few other Ajax components. Prado is a full web application development framework on the scale of CakePHP, another Ruby-on-Rails-inspired application framework for PHP. Prado has a template framework as well as a framework for components, modules, and services. The website has a screencast demoing a Hello World Prado app, and an excellent set of documentation that's available in HTML as well as PDF. Like the entire PHP world, Prado is an open source initiative, and juding from the screencast, a lot of the lead developers do their programming on a Mac. (Of course!)