About Tigermouse framework
Tigermouse is a modern web applications framework for PHP. It relies on AJAX technology, so in pair with being lightweight enables you to build dynamic, responsive and interactive web applications. It is well suited for enterprise-grade tasks because of its strong commitment to server-side business logic processing. Tigermouse does not require any Javascript coding, so you can focus on your application core logic instead of tinkering in UI. Noteworthy features are:
- full native AJAX support
- MVC architecture
- pluggable input/output filters
- AJAX requests queuing and expiring
- powerful ActiveRecord implementation
- SWT, Qt or GTK#-like user interface implementation
- extensible i18n support
- native support for Smarty templates
- built-in development tools
The framework is ready to use straight away. No configuration is needed.
Tigermouse is distributed under terms of GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
version 2.1
or any newer.
key applications
Tigermouse is solid foundation for rapid development of highly interactive web applications. It is well suited for business grade applications - CRM, accounting, stock management, logistics among them. It does not work like regular web page, therefore it does not work well as framework for portals, forums, polls, blogs or other URL-dependent applications.
design principles
The most important design principle of Tigermouse is to be ready for enterprise grade appliances. The other just follows this requirement:
- Perform business processing at the server side.
- Be lightweight.
- Be strictly MVC architecture compliant.
- No Javascript coding needed.
- Zero configuration, works out of the box.
- Be data source independent.
about organization
Tigermouse is a publicly run project hosted on Sourceforge. It is free/libre/open source software, which means it gives you freedom of use, it costs you nothing and you can download complete source code if you desire.
People who contributed to Tigermouse development:
- Michał Słaby
- Pablo F. Vasquez
- Bill Noyce
- Antoine Choppin
Write to tigermouse at epsi dot pl if you have any questions, problems or ideas.
You may also consider joing one of our mailing lists (see Getting Involved section).









