miniMVC

miniMVC is a minimalistic Modular MVC framework, with built-in minifier, and pure-PHP templating system.

Requirements

• PHP 5.3+
• PDO extensions for databases you wish to use
• Webserver that correctly handles PATH_INFO, such as:
  • Apache
  • IIS
  • Lighttpd
  • Resin/Quercus
• SimpleTest library for running unit tests

Unique features

Database class is an extension of PHP's PDO class.

Database class uses Query as a database abstraction layer and query builder.

Database connections are set in /app/config/db.php

File Structure

• index.php - framework bootstrap

• app - configuration and app-wide files

  • classes - helper classes
  • config - configuration files
  • modules - MVC triads
    • controllers - controller classes
    • models - model classes
    • views - module-specific views
  • views - global page templates
    • errors - error page templates

• assets - frontend files

  • js - javascript files
  • css - css files
  • config - minifier configuration files

• sys - core framework classes

Common Tasks

• Creating a controller

    <?php 
    class Foo extends miniMVC\Controller {
  
        function __construct()
        {
            parent::__construct();
        }
    }
  

• Creating a model

    <?php
    class Bar extends miniMVC\Model {
  
        function __construct()
        {
            parent::__construct();
        }
    }
  

• Loading a database

  $this->db = miniMVC\db::get_instance($db_name);

  Note that multiple databases can be used in the same class by specifying a different database name.

• Loading a model (From a controller)

  $this->load_model($model) - creates an instance of that model as a member of the current class. After loading the model, you can call its methods like so

  $this->[model name]->method()

• Loading a class

  Librarys / classes found in app/classes or sys/libraries are autoloaded. To call a library, simply instantiate that class.

  Classes with a get_instance static methods should be called like so:

  $obj =& miniMVC\class::get_instance()

  Other classes should be called using the new operator

  $obj = new miniMVC\class()