Purpose of this module:

1. Mapping between objects and their file resources
   • Instantiation of objects from persisted resources
   • Creation of resources from new / unpersisted objects
     • FrontMark resources for text-based objects
     • Pairs of binary and meta data resources for binary objects
   • Object publication, un-publication and re-publication
   • Object revision management
   • Object ID assignment & incrementation
   • Object localization (?)
2. Object API
   • Implementation of different object types
   • Object property getters & setters
   • Object payload getters & setters
   • Handling of object states
   • Handling of object privacy
   • Object references & involvement handling
     • Extraction of references from text-based resources
     • Involvement signalling to other objects
3. Utility functions
   • Object identifier & URL handling (composition, decomposition)
   • aprt:// and aprts:// URL handling

Please find the project documentation in the doc directory. I recommend reading it via Read the Docs.

This library requires PHP 5.6 or later. I recommend using the latest available version of PHP as a matter of principle. It has no userland dependencies.

To run the unit tests at the command line, issue composer install and then phpunit at the package root. This requires Composer to be available as composer, and PHPUnit to be available as phpunit.

This library attempts to comply with PSR-1, PSR-2, and PSR-4. If you notice compliance oversights, please send a patch via pull request.