Drool (drupal tool) released for beta testers

drupal.org: "Drool, which was demonstrated last year at DrupalCon in Barcelona, is a command-line tool that automates the mundane tasks of managing Drupal Web sites on a server and also offers a few more novel features. It can create new sites, install modules and themes directly from drupal.org, and clone one Drupal site to another. It helps you rapidly design themes by automatically skinning images (i.e. chopping and slicing them up for CSS scaling) onto regions of a theme."

Highly scalable MVC framework for PHP. GPL

PHPulse 3.2.84 is extremely lightweight and fast, with a modular development environment that allows functionality to be added quickly and easily with a built in templating engine.

Interchange. GPL

freshmeat.net: "Interchange is an advanced e-commerce platform. It enables you to build completely customized and flexible online shops, while utilizing the knowledge gathered in more than a decade of active development. It offers high level e-commerce functions, support for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Oracle, templating, a complete shopping cart functionality, payment processing, inventory, tax and shipping calculation, discounts, Web-based administration, localization, event routing, SOAP-based RPC, a custom tag language, and the full power of Perl."

Persistent storage framework. LGPL

"Midgard is a persistent storage framework. It provides an object-oriented and replicated environment for building data-intensive applications. It ships with a MidCOM content management system built on the Midgard framework. MidCOM's features include Web-based authoring WYSIWYG interfaces and a component interface for installing additional Web functionality. Midgard is built on the GNOME stack of libraries like GLib and libgda, and has language bindings for C, Python, and PHP. Communications between applications written in the different languages happen over D-Bus. The CMS runs on the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) platform."

Yana 4 PHP Framework. Free for non-commercial use,

freshmeat.net: "The Yana Framework is a component framework for developing PHP applications. It can be expanded with your own plugins (components). It includes skin and template support, multiple languages (German and English by default), mature administration functionality, multiple installation profiles, user login and administration, a database API based on PEAR-DB that also offers database schema support, and a GUI/code generator for your own plugins. It also includes an easy to use query tool that automatically maps database commands to a flat file if no database support is available. Plugins provided with this software are a guestbook, an RSS to HTML converter, and a search engine. Complete (German) documentation is included."

Mac's PHP MVC Framework with a CMS. GPL

SourceForge.net: "Mac's PHP MVC Framework is a open source, MVC Framework with an in-built templating engine and an integrated AJAX Driven CMS, it comes bundled with many PHP and Javascript libraries so you can focus on creating the application you want."

PHPulse is a highly scalable MVC framework for PHP. GPL

freshmeat.net: "It is extremely lightweight and fast, with a modular development environment that allows functionality to be added quickly and easily with a built in templating engine."