Jolt

Jolt is a PHP micro framework that helps you quickly write simple yet powerful web applications and APIs.

Jolt takes some inspiration from ExpressJS.

Jolt is not a full featured MVC framework, it is built to be a micro framework that handles routing and carries some basic template rendering. Feel free to use your own template engine such as Twig instead.

You can see more info at the Jolt wiki:

For database, I recommend Idiorm and Paris

If you don't want to use Composer, then you can use the autoloader.

If you're looking for the older version of Jolt, you can find it here in the legacy branch of the repo.

Requirements

• PHP 7+

Getting Started

Install

You may install the Jolt Framework with Composer (recommended) or manually.

Read how to install Jolt.

Hello World Tutorial

A typical PHP app using Jolt will look like this.

If you didn't install Jolt via Composer, then use the following to load Jolt:

<?php

require 'Jolt/Jolt.php';
\Jolt\Jolt::registerAutoloader();

Instantiate a Jolt application:

$app = new Jolt\Jolt();

Define a HTTP GET route:

$app->get('/hello/:name', function ($name) use ($app){
    echo "Hello, $name";
});

Run the Jolt application:

$app->listen();

Setup your web server

Apache

Ensure the .htaccess and index.php files are in the same public-accessible directory. The .htaccess file should contain this code:

RewriteEngine On

# Some hosts may require you to use the `RewriteBase` directive.
# If you need to use the `RewriteBase` directive, it should be the
# absolute physical path to the directory that contains this htaccess file.

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^ index.php [QSA,L]

Nginx

The nginx configuration file should contain this code (along with other settings you may need) in your location block:

try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;

This assumes that Jolt's index.php is in the root folder of your project (www root).

HipHop Virtual Machine for PHP

Your HipHop Virtual Machine configuration file should contain this code (along with other settings you may need). Be sure you change the ServerRoot setting to point to your Jolt app's document root directory.

Server {
    SourceRoot = /path/to/public/directory
}

ServerVariables {
    SCRIPT_NAME = /index.php
}

VirtualHost {
    * {
        Pattern = .*
        RewriteRules {
                * {
                        pattern = ^(.*)$
                        to = index.php/$1
                        qsa = true
                }
        }
    }
}

lighttpd

Your lighttpd configuration file should contain this code (along with other settings you may need). This code requires lighttpd >= 1.4.24.

url.rewrite-if-not-file = ("(.*)" => "/index.php/$0")

This assumes that Jolt's index.php is in the root folder of your project (www root).

IIS

Ensure the Web.config and index.php files are in the same public-accessible directory. The Web.config file should contain this code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
    <system.webServer>
        <rewrite>
            <rules>
                <rule name="jolt" patternSyntax="Wildcard">
                    <match url="*" />
                    <conditions>
                        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
                        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />
                    </conditions>
                    <action type="Rewrite" url="index.php" />
                </rule>
            </rules>
        </rewrite>
    </system.webServer>
</configuration>

Documentation

https://github.com/freekrai/jolt/wiki/usage

How to Contribute

Pull Requests

1. Fork the Jolt Framework repository
2. Create a new branch for each feature or improvement
3. Send a pull request from each feature branch to the develop branch

It is very important to separate new features or improvements into separate feature branches, and to send a pull request for each branch. This allows me to review and pull in new features or improvements individually.