Leaf PHP Framework

Leaf

Leaf is a PHP micro framework that helps you create clean, simple but powerful web apps and APIs quickly.

Installation

It's recommended that you use Composer to install Leaf.

$ composer require leafs/leaf

This will install Leaf in your project directory.

Basic Usage

This is a simple demmonstration of Leaf's simplicity. After installing Leaf, create an index.php file.

<?php
require __DIR__ . '/../vendor/autoload.php';

// Instantiate Leaf
$leaf = new Leaf\Core\Leaf;
$request = new Leaf\Core\Http\Request;
$response = new Leaf\Core\Http\Response;

// Add routes
$leaf->get('/', function () use($response) {
   $response->renderMarkup('<h5>My first Leaf app</h5>');
});

$leaf->post('/users/add', function () use($response, $request) {
    $name = $request->get('name');
    $response->respond(["message" => $name." has been added"]);
});

$leaf->run();

You may quickly test this using the built-in PHP server:

$ php -S localhost:8000

Working With MVC

Leaf has recently added a new package to it's collection: LeafMVC. It's an MVC framework built with this package at it's core that let's you create clean, simple but powerful web applications and APIs quickly and easily.

Ckeckout LeafMVC here

Working with API

Leaf also added a simple framework constructed in an MVCish way, but without the View layer purposely for creating APIs and Libraries. Leaf terms this construct as MRRC(Model Request Response Controller😅😅😅). This let's you seperate API logic, data and "views"(request and response) just like how it's done in MVC.

Checkout the LeafAPI package here

Of course, with this core package, you can build your app in any way that you wish to as Leaf contains all the required functionality to do so

View Leaf's docs here