🛠️ PHP Mini Project - MVC + ORM mini project

A lightweight Mini PHP project following the MVC pattern with PSR-4 autoloading and a basic routing system - similar to micro-frameworks like Slim or Laravel, but without using any full-stack framework.

🚀 Features

This is a minimal PHP MVC framework-style project that demonstrates:

• Custom ORM
• PSR-4 Autoloading
• SOLID Principles
• Custom Routing
• Basic Authentication (Register/Login)
• Layout & View rendering system

⚙️ Project Setup Highlights

• ✅ Custom Router with Controller@method support
• ✅ PSR-4 Autoloading via Composer
• ✅ Basic ORM to interact with DB
• ✅ MVC pattern with views/layouts
• ✅ Form validation and error handling
• ✅ Registration and login system (using PHP Sessions or simple logic)

⚙️ Requirements

• PHP 8+
• Composer
• MySQL or SQLite
• Apache/Nginx (or use PHP's built-in server)

📁 Project Directory Structure

PHP-MVC-ORM/
├── app/
│   ├── controllers/
│   │   └── UserController.php
│   ├── models/
│   │   └── User.php
│   ├── services/
│   │   └── Auth.php
├── config/
│   └── database.php
├── core/
│   ├── Database.php
│   ├── Router.php
│   ├── Model.php
│   │── View.php
├── public/
│   └── index.php
├── routes/
│   └── web.php
├── composer.json

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⚙️ Installation

git clone https://github.com/learnphp/PHP-MVC-ORM.git
cd PHP-MVC-ORM
composer install
composer dump-autoload

If Composer is not installed or your PHP version has compatibility issues, you can install dependencies using the command below:

cd PHP-MVC-ORM
php composer.phar install # or update

💡 Make sure you have composer.phar in your project root if Composer is not globally installed. Attached composer compatibility for PHP 7.2+ users

🌐 Access in Browser

Start PHP's built-in server:

php -S localhost:8000 -t public

Then open in browser:

• http://localhost:8000/register → Shows registration form
• http://localhost:8000/login → Show the login page

-- Above two just for demostartion proposes.

🔁 Routing (routes/web.php)

$router->get('/register', 'UserController@registerForm');
$router->get('/login', 'UserController@loginForm');

$router->post('/register', 'UserController@register');
$router->post('/login', 'UserController@login');

🧪 8. Sample Requests via Postman

POST /register
Content-Type: application/json
{
  "name": "Chinmay",
  "email": "chinmay235@example.com",
  "password": "secret123"
}

POST /login
Content-Type: application/json
{
  "email": "chinmay235@example.com",
  "password": "secret123"
}

🙋‍♂️ Need Help?

Feel free to reach out:

Chinmay Kumar Sahu
📧 chinmay235@gmail.com
💬 GitHub: @chinmay235

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.