Picnic, a lightweight framework engine

Picnic is a simple framework engine built for speed and extensibility, the engine itself is tiny but it allows you to create full web applications.

Features

• Model view controller structure
• Database support
• Regular expression routing
• PHP templates for speed
• PHP5 Only
• Small footprint

Using

1. Download the picnic source
2. Create a dispatcher file + include picnic\class.picnic.php (see below)
3. Code your application

Dispatcher file

<?php
// include picnic
require_once('picnic/class.picnic.php');

// create an instance
$picnic = Picnic::getInstance();

// setup any routes or extra configuration
$picnic->router()->addRoute(new PicnicRoute("/", "MyControllerClassName", "myActionMethodName"));

// include your applications source files
require_once("controllers/MyControllerClassName.php");

// call picnics render method
$picnic->render();
?>

Examples

See the README in the examples directory.

License

The MIT License

Copyright (c) 2009 Adam Livesley (sixones)

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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