Artax is a baseline scaffold for creating event-driven PHP 5.3+ applications.
NOTE: Please be aware that interfaces and implementation are subject to change until an official version 1.0 is reached.
- Mediated event management for pluggable applications
- Built-in dependency injection
- Lazy-loading of class-based event listeners
- Unified application error, exception and shutdown event handling
- Implement an event-driven application engine without inhibiting linear cause/effect design;
- Integrate simple, built-in dependency injection;
- Lazy-load anything that can be put off without performance penalties;
- Eschew the use of
staticentirely in favor of maximum testability and full API transparency; - Favor OOP principles for complex application development while supporting organized lambda usage in evented systems;
- Build all components using SOLID, readable, documented and 100% unit-tested code.
Children of the 1980s are likely familiar with The NeverEnding Story and may remember the scene where Atreyu's faithful steed, Artax, died in the Swamp of Sadness. The name is an homage to one of the greatest childrens movies of all time.
If you don't have much experience developing PHP applications, this may not be the right tool for you. There is no built-in MVC structure, though it should be trivial to implement an evented MVC application on top of the Artax-Core package. There are no "helper" libraries for generating emoticons or HTML forms: just a SOLID, readable, documented, unit-tested scaffold for writing event-driven and pluggable PHP applications.