25 OpenSource PHP Framework includes SilverStripe but not MODx!

I was just checking out this article 25 OpenSource PHP Framework and was very surprised to see SilverStripe. And since SilverStripe made it then why not MODx?

After checking it out I came to the conclusion that it is because SS markets their ’framework’ (not half as cool as the modx api) as a feature and even named it Saphire which makes it sound cool. It caught my attention. Maybe MODx should give the MODx API a cool name

The problem is that people don’t know how you can use modx is a framework. I am having the same problem, I don’t know how to use it as a framework to create my own application.

The problem is you can pretty much use PHP at will within MODx. That’s what has historically been considered the framework aspect, in that the code you author as snippets and plugins can access the core facilities for working with users, security, and documents. So creating any component in MODx is using it as a framework in a sense.

Revolution will feature more of a RAD framework API that can be used both internally by components, or externally by other PHP scripts, making it more of a true application framework. It will also feature xPDO, which provides a rich layer for working with custom databases/tables; though I use xPDO even with the 0.9.x versions of MODx to create components that access custom tables. You can use just about anything you like to do the same, as long as it doesn’t hijack the MODx database connection, and the same goes for other libraries and PHP code. With a little bit of adaptation, many scripts are easily converted into MODx components.

And if "Revolution API" is not a cool enough name to refer to the MODx 2.0 API, then we have some other code names ready that should fit the bill...