A simple, easy extendable, lightweight PHP-Framework.
- Page Templates (Views)
- Component System (Controls)
- Page System
- MySQL Build Query (Hydrahon)
- Routing
Getting started is very easy with ezpzPHP.
Copy the repository in your destination folder
git clone https://github.com/Matix-Media/ezpzPHP
Typically, you should use a web server such as Apache or Ngnix.
If you want to use the built in PHP web server during development, navigate to the public folder and run the following command:
php -S localhost:8000After successfully installing ezpzPHP, you should take a glance around the project to familiarize yourself with the directory structure.
- The
publicfolder holds all the files wich are public available to the web. So you should configure your webserver properly. - In the
contentdirectory, you can find folders such ascontrols,pages,routesandviews. - The
content/controlsfolder contains all of your controls (Components). And you should not put your controls anywhere else, otherwise ezpzPHP can not locate the control. - The
content/pagesdirectory holds all pages. And like the controls, you should not put pages anywhere else. - The
content/viewsfolder contains all of your views (Page Templates). And the same rules apply as for the controls and pages - In the
content/routesdirectory are you route definitions. You can have multiple files to specify your routes, in case you have a lot of them.
To get started, lets create our first route. In ezpzPHP, specifying routes is super simple. Just go to the content/routes directory and open up the routes.php file and the following route to the bottom of the file:
Route::add("/users", function() {
echo 'Users!';
});Now, if you navigate to /users in your web browser, you should see Users! shown as the response. WOW! You`ve created your first route!
Routes can also contain a regex if you want to catch a variable out of the URL. For example, we want to get the number out of /number/2/bar.
Route::add("/number/([0-9]*)/bar", function ($var1) {
echo $var1;
});You should now see the number 2 displayed in your browser!
The same works with strings.
Next, we will create our first page, where we can display our number better and provide some more styling. Pages are located in the content/pages folder and contain the PHP for your page. We're going to place one new page in this folder: number.php.
<div class="main">
<p>
Your number is
<?= $arguments["number"] ?>
</p>
</div>As you can see, in this file, we have a HTML element as our page wrapper. We also have specified some PHP to display the number, for that we use the arguments variable.
Now that we have our page, let's use it actually in our route. Instead od just echoing the number.
Route::add("/number/([0-9]*)/bar", function ($var1) {
Route::load_page("number.php", ["number" => $var1]);
});Amazing! Now you have setup your very first page. Next, let's start creating a view.
Next, we will create a simple view, to enhance the layout of the page. Views live in the content/views directory and contain the HTML of your application. We're going to place a new view in this directory: default.html.
<html>
<head>
<!--
[!VIEW_CONTROL]
header_control=header.php
footer_control=footer.php
[!VIEW_CONTROL]
-->
<title>$(title)</title>
$(head_content)
</head>
<body>
$(header_content)
<!---->
$(body_content)
<!---->
$(footer_content)
</body>
</html>Some of the syntax probably looks quite strange to you. That's because we're using ezpzPHP's simple templating system.
Between the two [!VIEW_CONTROL] tags, we can specify some default header and footer control elements.
With the $() tags, you can specify the location of the page content.
Now that we have our views,, let's use it from our /number route.
Route::add("/number/([0-9]*)/bar", function ($var1) {
Route::load_view("default.html", "number.php", null, ["number" => $var1]);
});Wonderful! As you can see, we are passing the arguments array at the fourth place in the function, so that our is still able to read the passed number.
In the third parameter, you can pass a title for the view.
Route::load_view("default.html", "number.php", "This is my title!");At the seventh parameter you can pass some plain text for the head of the HTML.
$head = "<link rel='stylesheet' href='/resources/styles.css'>"
Route::load_view("default.html", "number.php", null, null, null, null, $head);If you haven't specified a header and footer control in the view itself, you can pass it now using the fifth and sixth parameter.
Route::load_view("default.html", "number.php", null, null, "header.php", "footer.php");Now you have setup a simple view which you can use as base for other pages.
Now that we have create a page and a view, we should now create some controls for the header and the footer. Controls are placed in the content/controls folder. We will create our first control in that folder and name it header.php.
<header>
<h1>Your Website</h1>
<pre>Today is <?= date("l") ?></pre>
</header>
<style>
header {
padding: 1rem;
background: black;
color: white;
}
header h1 {
margin: 0;
}
</style>As you can see, the structure of pages and controls is very similar. We can use HTML and PHP to display the control. We also use some CSS to make it a little prettier.
Now, if we want to use this control for example in a page, we can simply call Route::load_control.
<div class="main">
<p>Some text here!</p>
<?php Route::load_control("header.php"); ?>
</div>We can also pass some arguments to the control, like we do with pages.
Route::load_control("header.php", ["foo" => "bar"]);The controls are also used by views, to specify a header and a footer.
<html>
<head>
<!--
[!VIEW_CONTROL]
header_control=header.php
footer_control=footer.php
[!VIEW_CONTROL]
-->
</head>
<body>
$(header_content)
<!---->
$(footer_content)
</body>
</html>Which control is used is either specified in the view itself or when loading the view. When you specify it on the load, it's get overwritten by the specified controls in the view itself.
Route::load_view("default.html", "number.php", null, null, "header.php", "footer.php");If you want some public available resources for you website, then you should use the public/resources directory for that.
ezpzPHP uses the Hydrahon SQL Query Builder by clancats. In order to connect with your database open up the public/index.php file and paste the following with your credentials under the comment with Database Setup.
DB::setup(new PDO("mysql:host=localhost;dbname=test", "username", "password"));You can access the database now by using:
DB::$DBFor more information about the Query Builder take a loot at the docs:
https://clancats.io/hydrahon/master/ or
https://github.com/ClanCats/Hydrahon
Based on Simple PHP Router by steampixel
Copyright © 2020 Matix Media, Inc.
MIT License