Ubiquity, one of the fastest frameworks, with the main features of the bests
Main features
- MVC
- Dependency injection
- PSR-4 Autoloader
- Router based on annotations
- ORM implementing Data Mapper
- Multi-level cache
- Rest Server
- Web admin interface (UbiquityMyAdmin)
- Scaffolding
- Console Admin interface (Devtools)
Installation
The easiest way to install Ubiquity is to use devtools
- Install Ubiquity-devtools:
composer global require phpmv/ubiquity-devtools- Create a project:
Ubiquity new firstProject -a -q=semantic- Start the server:
Ubiquity serveNeed some help?
Ubiquity is a recent project and does not have a community yet. In the meantime, you can consult:
- Quick-start guide to discover the framework
- Documentation to go deeper
- API documentation to search further
For further assistance please feel free to :
Performances
Ubiquity realizes its own benchmarks, especially for the ORM part:
This test involves loading from a Mysql database:
- 2100 instances of the Host class
- each host is associated with 1 user, who can have configured some virtualhosts
- each host has multiple servers, of a certain type.
Approximately 6000 objects are loaded, in this intuitive line with Ubiquity:
$hosts=DAO::getAll(Host::class,"",["user.virtualhosts","servers.stype"]);On this type of related object loading that can be very time consuming with an ORM, Ubiquity is 3,1 times faster than Codeigniter associated with Doctrine, 3,6 times faster than Symfony, 20 times more than Laravel-Eloquent!
Unlike Doctrine, for this data loading, Ubiquity:
- does not perform any SQL joins
- executes only 123 queries, against 3190 for Doctrine
see for yourself orm-benchmarks
These excellent results have been confirmed by an independent benchmark site : phpbenchmarks.com
About design choices
Ubiquity was created in April 2017.
The project tries to simplify the development process, to empower web developers delivering value through their applications. It aims to reconcile performance and ease of handling.
This dual purpose has led to some design choices:
Get inspired by best practices and successful concepts from other frameworks, but do not try to reproduce what is not in the logic of PHP.
Some PHP frameworks were inspired by the Java world, which has contributed to more professional php development. But java is not PHP, environments and languages are completely different (though their syntax are similar), and what is good in Java is not necessarily in PHP.
Ubiquity wants to stay in the spirit of PHP and what it does best, for example:
- By using php (packed) arrays because they are effective in php (with php7 optimization)
- By not creating instances of classes to inject for the core part of the framework, to prefer the use of classes with static methods
Not multiplying the ways of doing things.
if a method or technique is satisfactory, there's no reason to implement an alternative version, especially if there is a risk of degrading performance, or complicating the handling of the framework.
Avoiding multiple external dependencies, which are sometimes loaded when they are never used.
- They prevent the developer from optimizing his own code.
- In some applications, the dependency loading time is more expensive than running the application code.
The framework used must give the developer the means to optimize his application and not the other way around.
Preview of some features
Devtools console program
Ubiquity helpThe program in console mode makes it easy to perform all the repetitive tasks related to the design of projects:
- creations : project, controllers, actions, routes, models, views,
- checking : routes, models, validators
- scaffolding (CRUD + authentification)
Admin interface
Like the console, the administration interface makes it possible to act on the main components of the framework.
When creating a project, it can be installed with the -a and -q=semantic options (for Semantic-UI).
ubiquity new firstProject -a -q=semantic
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