* Agavi is a general purpose PHP application framework built around the Model-View-Controller architecture originally based on the Mojavi 3 Web application framework written by Sean Kerr. It provides a rich toolset that solves most of the routine problems in Web application development. * Agavi is designed for serious development. It is not a complete website construction kit but rather a skeleton over which you build your application. The architecture of Agavi allows developers to retain very fine control over their code. Agavi itself is written to be extensible, and powerful. Whereas this documentation serves as an important resource, many developers are comfortable learning from Agavi's source code. * Agavi strives to leave most implementational choices to the developers. Agavi's components are inherently extensible, and the framework itself is designed around a XML-based configuration system that provides a very flexible environment. For you — as a developer — this architectural style means that you are required to perform less hacking (or, in most cases, none at all!) at the framework level and therefore have more time to get your application written. * The framework works for almost all kinds of applications but excels most in large codebases, long-term projects, extreme cases of integration and other special situations.

* Routing: Requests to function-call mapping with support for clean and dynamic URLs. * Templates: Fast and pythonic built-in template engine and support for mako, jinja2 and cheetah templates. * Utilities: Convenient access to form data, file uploads, cookies, headers and other HTTP-related metadata. * Server: Built-in HTTP development server and support for paste, fapws3, bjoern, gae, cherrypy or any other WSGI capable HTTP server.