Facula is a highly extensible experimental non-full-stack framework written in PHP.
It aim to provide a stable interface for the ground floor to make your application can be fit to various environments without changing existing code.
- Under: Development
- Project: Experimental (Production not recommended)
You can download or clone it from Github, Bitbucket, or use Composer
Install the Composer, and run:
cd [To/Your/Project/Path]
composer require raincious/facula "*"
Install Git and run:
cd [To/Your/Project/Path]
# If you use Github
git clone https://github.com/raincious/facula
# Or you use Bitbucket
git clone https://bitbucket.org/raincious/facula-framework-2
After that, require The framework by adding
require('facula/Bootstrap.php');
Into your index.php or other common procedure file.
See The release section.
To power on the framework, you need to initialize by the run method.
<?php
...
use Facula\Framework;
Framework::run();
And then, you will be able to use all the function that provided by the framework:
Framework::core('response')->setContent('Hello World');
Framework::core('response')->send();
For more information of framework usage, please see the examples.
Facula is Not a MVC framework that strictly limit the usage and force you to use MVC pattern.
Which means you can still work with your procedural project and add the framework in.
For managing the ground floor properly, the framework need a environment that can't be interfere. That's means, you can't use function like echo to output or ob_* to create buffer. Function that effect globally like mb_internal_encoding is not recommended to use in data handle process.
Keep in mind, in the presuppose, facula will manage the whole workflow from input to output.
For example, when you want to get data from request, you need to use function core request:
$pageID = Facula\Framework::core('request')->getGet('page_id');
$content = Facula\Framework::core('request')->getPost('Content');
$cookie = Facula\Framework::core('request')->getCookie('Cookie');
For response, use the response core:
Facula\Framework::core('response')->setCookie('Cookie', 'I remember you');
Facula\Framework::core('response')->setHeader('Your: header');
Facula\Framework::core('response')->setHeader('Another: header');
Facula\Framework::core('response')->setContent('Hi');
Facula\Framework::core('response')->send('Hi');
However, if you want to keep it your own way and not use the request and response function core, you can disable the request and response function core by simply extends the Facula\Framework class, and modify the protected static $requiredCores array.
If you already have a MVC project, you can still use your old libraries and even frameworks. And only let Facula to help you to handle tasks you want.
For example, you can disable all function cores and just let Facula to manage your project file as a autoloader.
Facula core basically is a component loader, which load up component according your configuartion and get them ready to use.
That means you can flexibly select or decide which you want to load to enable some function or just disable those functions by simply not to loading it.
Please see the example project in examples\BasicStart folder. It showing how to start a fresh MVC project based on Facula Framework.
Facula also on Github, Google Code and Bitbucket.
See LICENSE