Written for PHP 5.3, Clever brings a wealth of powerful tools to the development experience. It brings with it an MVC architecture and easy data interaction through the use of ORM.
Clever also simplifies the process further with the integration of AJAX and easy-to-setup views and output formats.
By using PHP 5.3, Clever can offer some great features and also future-proof itself a bit. PHP 6 is coming eventually; we embrace it by making use of its namespaces, late static binding, and anonymous functions.
Two things that make sense in a framework. Separate your code from design with the use of Model-View-Controller, interact more easily with data through Object-Relational Mapping.
By default, Clever will use the MooTools Framework for all of its Javascript needs. Though the ability to choose jQuery, Prototype or even integrate your own package will become available.