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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

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

Install with Doctrine2 (Optional)

$ pear config-set auto_discover 1
$ 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
• read about request mapping
• read about the phing script
• read about adding CLI targets