PHP xFrame

A lightweight MVC framework

Features

• Incredibly fast (boot in 2.2ms)
• Simple autoloading
• Dependency injection container
• Annotation based request mapping
• Phing build, test and documentation scripts
• Multiple view types: Twig (default), PHPTAL, pure PHP
• Inbuilt caching
• Doctrine2 integration (optional)

Installation

Pear installation

$ sudo pear config-set auto_discover 1
$ sudo pear install pear.linusnorton.co.uk/xFrame

Install with Doctrine2 (Optional)

$ sudo pear config-set auto_discover 1
$ sudo pear install --alldeps pear.linusnorton.co.uk/xFrame

(Note that PHP5.3 is required and APC is recommended)

Setup

Create directory structure

$ xframe --create-project /var/www/demo

Ensure you have created your virtual host, enabled mod_rewrite, restarted apache and edited /etc/hosts if necessary

Getting Started

Enter the domain you entered in the virtual host and test the set up was successful.

• Start hacking src/demo/controller/Index.php and view/index.twig
• read about request mapping
• read about the dependency injection container
• read about bootstrapping
• read about Doctrine2 integration
• read about the testing and the phing script
• read about adding CLI targets
• read about the exception mailer
• read about using plugins
• read about using the ACL