README.md

Tyke

Is a nano web framework for PHP, like web.py for Python, Sinatra or Camping for Ruby.

It was forked by Harald Kirschner of Nice Dog (originally by Tiago Bastos).

Minimal

require 'Tyke.php';

Tyke::register('/', array('Test', 'index'));

class Test extends TykeC
{
		public function index() {
				echo 'Hello';
		}
}

Tyke::run();

But Why?

If you want to build a small site or software and do not need a BIG framework with a lot of features, you can use Nice Dog. Nice Dog do not have any ORM or big features like Cake, Rails or Django have, but it is smaller, easier and faster!

Deploy Two Files

Just get the .htaccess and Tyke.php and drop the files into a folder in your Apache server!

Nice Urls

Tyke::register('/', array('Test', 'index'));

Walk-through

1. Get the files

2. Put in your htdocs directory, or a subdirectory.

3. Create a index.php

4. Just

    require('Tyke.php')
   

5. Make urls like this, define the url, class, method and HTTP method:

    Tyke::register('tag/(?P<tag>[-\w]+)', array('Test', 'tag'), array('http_method' => 'GET'));
   

6. Write a class that extends TykeC

    class Test extends TykeC {}
   

7. Add a method tag

    public function tag($tag){ echo $tag; }
   

8. And dispatch Tyke magic

    Tyke::run()
   

9. Open in your browser: http://localhost/tag/dog

Templates

PHP works nice for templating, so lets use it!

public function tag($tag){
		$this->tag = $tag; 
		$this->render('views/index.php');
}

Base layout views/layout.php

<h1>My first example</h1>
<?=$content?>

To change base layout add to your method: $this->layout = 'myLayout.php';

Template views/index.php

<span><?= htmlspecialchars($tag) ?></span>

Samples

To run the samples, copy the .htaccess in your favourite sample folder and change the RewriteBase according to your absolute web path (e.g. /tyke/sample/simple/ if you load it via http://localhost/tyke/sample/simple/).

License

See license file.