paradigm from creator of the famous MVC pattern, Tryggve Reenskaug: DCI Wikipedia page — a must read! php-dciv uses php-activerecord ( http://www.phpactiverecord.org/ MIT-licensed) for it’s Data part. php-dciv Clone & push urls GIT HTTP ? Cloning this repository: git clone git://gitorious.org/php-dciv/php-dciv.git php-dciv cd php-dciv Add this repository as a remote to