Fusebox
From Wildsong
Fusebox is a framework that allows you to break a Web application into pieces tpo enable separation of the database gunk from the presentation gunk.
There are ColdFusion and PHP versions. Here is a tutorial on the CF version.
http://tutorial389.easycfm.com/
Here is a presentation on the PHP version.
http://www.cllrnet.ca/sdg/tutorials/PHP_Fusebox_Tutorial.ppt