Installation

To deploy current application locally, you need to follow these steps:

• copy .env.example to .env and adjust its contents to match your environment
• pull in dependencies by running composer install

Examples

I provided two ways to run this app via console and browser:

• two for console (green and red paths). Run in your console both:
  • php tests/console_bad.php - will output pretty error page
  • php tests/console_good.php - will output "OK"
• two for HTTP
  • navigate to project folder and run internal php server: php -S localhost:8081 -t tests
  • now open in your browser: http://localhost:8081/http_bad.php and http://localhost:8081/http_good.php

Packages

This app uses a couple of packages I'd like to explain:

• vlucas/phpdotenv - this pacakge will automatically import all ENV variables from .env file and make them available within the app.
• samrap/gestalt - a pacakge to load configuration values from PHP files (in case you need other formats it supports a bunch)
• illuminate/support - this package needs explanation. It comes from Laravel Framework and I pulled it in because I am so used to syntactic sugar it offers - functions like env(...) or array_get(...) are so useful taht I just had to pull this one in the app. It does have some classes and interfaces that I don't use, not a big issue at all.
• php-di/php-di - The dipendency injection container. There are many more, this one feels okay to me.
• doctrine/cache - This package is required in order to optimize previous pacakge, so it will cache internal data. The cache is in general very useful for other stuff as well.
• filp/whoops - The error handler and formatter library. Outputs pretty responses in JSON, HTML and console modes.
• monolog/monolog - This one is to log things to files.