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Minimal Framework

Please acknowledge that this is solely a Tech/Skill Demo. It is not intended for use in actual projects, although it is fully functional and tested under PHP 7.

Minimal is a MVC web application framework for PHP.

_{The code snippet demonstrates a monolithic approach to the framework, employing facades to define a single-function web application endpoint. There is much more than static classes under the hood! It is an efficient solution for developing small REST APIs. The framework automatically converts ORM returned data (models implementing the JsonableInterface) into JSON, streamlining the API response process. Conversely, the framework accommodates alternative setup familiar in other frameworks, supporting a traditional modular MVC architecture for more complex, larger-scale projects.}

...and if you're not happy with the Router (or any other component), you could do:

...yes, SOLID principles.

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Introduction

Key features:

• Build MVC-, REST-, CLI-APIs and apps and query databases with a ORM
• Take advantage of inversion of control and facades
• Easy install via command line and works out of the box
• No dependencies to third party libraries (except in development mode: PHPUnit, Symfony VarDumper)
• Most of the core components work standalone
• Plain PHP in the views/templates

Requirements

1. PHP version 7.x
2. composer

Install

With the default directory structure:

Then point your server's document root to the public directory.

If you use the PHP-builtin webserver then do:

Vendor libraries only:

Minimal installation for code style like in the introduction above:

Usage

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Quickstart example

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Routing

Direct output:

http://localhost/hello/julien/duseyau -> Hello Julien Duseyau

Using controllers

or

http://localhost/hello/julien/duseyau -> Hello Julien Duseyau

Route groups

File download

Single route execution from anywhere

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Dependency injection

Binding a interface to a implementation is straight forward:

or in config/bindings.php

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Providers

Providers are service providers

or in config/providers.php

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Middlewares

Standalone example

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Controllers

The controllers specified in the routes are instantiated through Provider->make() (e.g. App::make()), which will always look for a singleton first, then search the service container for a provider or factory or else just create a instance and inject dependencies. Which means there is nothing to do to make this controller with concrete dependencies work:

In order to use interfaces, bindings have to be registered. See also config/bindings.php

For a more control register a factory. See also config/providers.php

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Views

Result:

Where to do these View calls? Anywhere is fine. But one place could be:

then

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Assets

Outputs:

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List all registered routes

List all registered modules

List all registered bindings

List all registered providers

List all events and subscribers

List all registered config

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Components

Minimal requires at least these packages:

• judus/minimal-collections - a simple iterator
• judus/minimal-config - handles a multidimensional array
• judus/minimal-controllers - the frontcontroller
• judus/minimal-http - request and response objects
• judus/minimal-middlewares - a unconventional middleware implementation
• judus/minimal-minimal - the application object that binds all together
• judus/minimal-provider - service provider and dependency injector
• judus/minimal-routing - the router

These packages are also included but are not necessary:

• judus/minimal-assets - register css and js during runtime, dump html link and script tags
• judus/minimal-benchmark - this "benchmarking" class is only used in the demo
• judus/minimal-cli - a command line interface, which will be completely redone asap
• judus/minimal-database - a pdo connector, a mysql query builder and a ORM
• judus/minimal-event - a simple event dispatcher
• judus/minimal-html - for now just a html table class
• judus/minimal-log - a simple logger
• judus/minimal-paths - might help creating paths and urls
• judus/minimal-translation - translations in a pretty printed json file
• judus/minimal-views - simple php views and layouts

License

The Minimal framework is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license

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