Ziggy MVC

Ziggy MVC is a family of small, lightweight, convention-over-configuration frameworks for CFML. It provides:

• Ziggy MVC - MVC framework with controllers, views, layouts, and URL routing
• DI/1 - Dependency Injection (Inversion of Control) container
• AOP/1 - Aspect-Oriented Programming support

About Ziggy MVC

Ziggy MVC version 5.0.0 is a community-driven fork of Framework-1 (FW/1), created by South of Shasta and other members of the CFML community. Development on the original FW/1 had stalled, so we created a fresh start while preserving full backward compatibility with FW/1.

Ziggy MVC is 100% backward compatible with FW/1. Your existing FW/1 applications will work as-is with Ziggy MVC - you just need to change framework.one to framework.ziggy in your Application.cfc file.

Version History

Version	Description
5.0.0	Initial Ziggy MVC release (forked from FW/1 4.3.0)
FW/1 4.3.0	Original Framework-1 codebase

Quick Start

Installation

Via CommandBox:

box install ziggy-mvc

Via GitHub: Download from https://github.com/ZiggyMVC/ZiggyMVC

Minimum Requirements

• Adobe ColdFusion 10 or later
• Lucee 4.5.0 or later (Lucee 5.x recommended)

Your First Application

Create these files in your webroot:

Application.cfc:

component extends="framework.ziggy" {
    this.name = "MyApp";
}

index.cfm:

<!--- This file intentionally left empty --->

views/main/default.cfm:

<h1>Hello, Ziggy MVC!</h1>
<p>Welcome to your first Ziggy MVC application.</p>

Visit your application in a browser, and you’ll see your first Ziggy MVC page!

Features

• Convention over Configuration - Minimal setup required; follows sensible defaults
• MVC Architecture - Clean separation of models, views, and controllers
• Dependency Injection - Built-in DI/1 container with automatic bean discovery
• Subsystems - Modularize large applications into mini-applications
• URL Routes - Flexible routing with support for SES URLs and REST
• REST API Support - Built-in JSON, XML, and custom rendering
• Layouts - Cascading layout system with view-specific overrides
• Lightweight - Single-file architecture with minimal overhead

Documentation

• Getting Started Guide
• Developing Applications
• Using DI/1
• Using AOP/1
• Using Subsystems
• Reference Manual

Community

• GitHub: https://github.com/ZiggyMVC/ZiggyMVC
• Issues: https://github.com/ZiggyMVC/ZiggyMVC/issues

License

Ziggy MVC is released under the Apache License 2.0.

• Framework-1: Copyright (c) 2009-2018, Sean Corfield (and others)
• Ziggy MVC: Copyright (c) 2026, South of Shasta (and others)

Special thanks to Sean Corfield, the original creator of FW/1, and to all the contributors who made this framework possible.