miniMVC/README.md

miniMVC

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

Unique features

Extensive use of PHP's magic methods on the base class

• __toString() method allows a view of the current class object when the current class object is used as a string. If you prefer var_dump() or var_export(), you can pass the name of that function if you call the __toString method directly.

  Eg. $this . "string", $this->__toString(), echo $this;

• __call() method allows (in PHP 5.3+) the dynamic addition of callable closure objects

  Eg. $this->foo = function($baz){} is callable as $this->foo(), with the current object as the last argument

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

• miniMVC supports any database supported by PDO
• Database class also implements the __toString method

File Structure

• index.php - framework frontend

• app - configuration and app-wide files

  • config - configuration files
  • errors - error page templates
  • views - global page templates

• assets - frontend files

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

• modules - MVC triads

  • controllers - controller classes
  • models - model classes
  • views - module-specific views

• sys - core framework classes