Magister is a programmer oriented framework for building complex made-to-order application. Its modus operandi is to provide tools to facilitate and speed up website and application development, and stay out of the way.
It is meant to be a lightweight framework, for projects that to not need or want the bulk of frameworks such as CakePHP, Symfony, Zend, etc. It does however, use concepts similar to these frameworks, such as Convention over Configuration and a MVC-like system.
Magister makes no assumptions as to the type of application that is running on it, so you are free to build your application as you want.
The simplest installation is to upload the package to your server and set the
DocumentRoot to the path of the app directory. If that is not possible, the
whole package can be uploaded straight into the current DocumentRoot.
The advanced installation consists of uploading the lib directory to a central
location on your server, outside of the DocumentRoot, and the app to the
DocumentRoot (or a location within). This method requires editing the value of
the LIB_DIR constant in the application's index.php file to point to the
directory containing the Magister folder. This method allows multiple apps to
share the same library.
At the moment, there is only API-level documentation, which can be procured by
running the following command in the root directory (the one that contains
lib):
phpdoc run
Do not fear, as we are building the documentation of Magister, and in a short while, you'll know all you need to build websites left and right!