The 'lithron framework' which is a PHP-based framework for developing database-driven websites and web applications with PDF rendering has now reached a pretty complete state. It integrates popular open source projects like smarty, tiny_mce and overlib into a LAMP environment.

Requirements: Apache, MySQL, PHP.
recommended: PHP extensions: DOMXML, GDlib, PDFlib 6. Other Software: ImageMagick.

It comes with an installer for easy setup.

Additionally, there are more core modules for easy database access, image manipulation, font rendering, PDF rendering, site structure administration, user and group management, remote rendering operations and much more. Besides the package contains some example modules like a lightweight CMS, some PDF rendering examples like a mailing and a business card, some admin modules for site maintainance and setup, a site search function and a login screen.

Lithron has CSS2 based HTML templates and those are vaild XHTML 1.0.

The PDF renderer is also based on a XHTML and CSS2 Syntax.

Lithron is desigend to customize. That means it's focused on a clean and small codebase, good performance and stability.