SlimPHP 3 Skeleton MVC App [STABLE VERSION WILL BE READY BY MID APRIL 2017.]

This is a template web-application (powered by SlimPHP 3), that can be extended to build more complex web applications.

Features / Benefits of using the Slim MVC Framework

• It adds the Model-View-Controller structure to your web-application. Actually, really more of Controller-View functionality with a model folder provided for housing your Model classes (leaving you with the responsibility of choosing whichever ORM / Database Access Library suits your needs or are most comfortable with)

• Provides a skeleton folder / directory structure for your application:

./path/to/newly/created/app
|-- config/
|   |-- app-settings.php
|   |-- dependencies.php
|   |-- env.php
|   |-- ini-settings.php
|   `-- routes-and-middlewares.php
|
|-- logs/
|
|-- public/
|   |-- css/
|   |-- images/
|   |-- js/
|   `-- index.php
|
|-- src/
|   |-- controllers/
|   |-- layout-templates/
|   |-- models/
|   `-- views/
|
|-- tests/
|
|-- tmp/
|
|-- vendor/
|
|-- .gitignore
|-- composer.json
|-- composer.lock
`-- README.md

• Provides some helper functions like s3MVC_UriToString(\Psr\Http\Message\UriInterface $uri), s3MVC_addQueryStrParamToUri(\Psr\Http\Message\UriInterface $uri, $param_name, $param_value), etc. in the default global namespace and a few string helper functions in the Slim3MvcTools\Functions\Str namespace

• Provides an automatic routing scheme for mapping request urls to methods in Controller classes that are sub-classes of Slim3MvcTools\Controllers\BaseController. You don't need to define any routes for your application if you adhere to using Controllers that are compatible with the routing scheme

  • Also supports operating using only pure Slim PHP3 functionality (i.e. disabling the automatic routing scheme described above and allowing you to manually / explicitly define routes and middle-wares for your application that may or may not make use of Controller classes as route handlers)

• Ships whith a BaseController class (i.e. Slim3MvcTools\Controllers\BaseController) that provides methods for authentication, generating HTTP 404, 405 and 500 response objects and methods for rendering php view and layout files using the light-weight and easily extensible Rotexsoft\FileRenderer\Renderer class

• Provides a command-line script for creating Controller classes (that extend Slim3MvcTools\Controllers\BaseController or any of its descendants).

  • ./vendor/bin/s3mvc-create-controller on *nix-like Oses and .\vendor\bin\s3mvc-create-controller.bat on Windows

• Ships with a very minimal amount of composer / packagists dependencies (all of which are used by Slim3MvcTools\Controllers\BaseController) in order to allow you to include only additional dependencies that suit the specific needs of your application. Thereby reducing the possibility of having unused / unneeded dependencies in your application

• Optionally ships with the Zurb Foundation front-end framework (http://foundation.zurb.com/) and jQuery or no front-end framework

• Strives to adhere strictly to the PSR-7 HTTP messages and container-interop/container-interop interfaces, in order to make it easy to use different implementations of the PSR-7 request and response objects and container-interop/container-interop compliant containers

Requirements

• PHP 5.5+
• Pdo sqlite (3) extension for Authentication in non-production environments
• Composer (https://getcomposer.org)

Documentation

• Documentation