Btwonu / php-framework

Minimal PHP MVC Framework

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File structure

php-framework:
│   .gitignore
│   .htaccess
│   .prettierignore
│   .prettierrc.json
│   bootstrap.php
│   composer.json
│   composer.lock
│   index.php
│   package-lock.json
│   README.md
│   routes.php
│
├───controllers
│       PageController.php
│       PostController.php
│
├───core
│       App.php
│       Router.php
│
├───css
│       style.css
│
├───db
│       Connection.php
│       Database.php
│       example-config.php
│
├───fonts
│
├───models
│       Post.php
│
├───partials
│       footer.php
│       header.php
│
└───views
        404.view.php
        about.view.php
        contact.view.php
        index.view.php
        posts.view.php

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In a nutshell

Bootstrapping of the applications begins in index.php, which loads the general config, autoloads the classes and then initializes Router and loads the routes.

Routes can be registered in routes.php and assigned to a Controller, e.g.:

$router->get('posts', 'PostController@index');
$router->post('posts', 'PostController@post');

The Database class uses PDO to define CRUD methods. The App class acts like a container and initializes a Database instance. The controllers can then use this Database to perform CRUD operations like so:

$posts = App::get('database')->getAll('posts');

The next steps I want to take is to Refactor the Router to use dependency injection to receive the controllers and be able to register routes with dynamic parameters, e.g.:

$router->post('posts/:id', 'PostController@update');