The easiest way to install is by using Composer

In your composer.json file:

{
	"require": {
		"php": ">=5.3.0",
		"kengoldfarb/underscore_php": "1.*",
	}
}

Alternately, you can just Download the source

This framework follows the MVC pattern with all routing occuring at the webserver level.

The best way to enjoy _PHP is by using it in conjunction with _Libs which can be installed by composer (this is there by default)

{
	"require": {
		"php": ">=5.3.0",
		"kengoldfarb/underscore_libs": "1.*",
	}
}

Creating friendly urls is easy.

http://localhost/ maps to controllers/defaultController.php [action=index]

http://localhost/hellothere maps to controllers/defaultController.php [action=hellothere]

http://localhost/lists maps to controllers/listsController.php [action=index]

http://localhost/lists/add-list maps to controllers/listsController.php [action=add-list]

and so on...

Just check out controllers/defaultController.php for examples.

For custom routing check out the .htaccess file and the nginx example config file

Models should be created in models/ and then used normally

require_once _MODELS . 'MyModel.php';
$myModel = new MyModel();

Views are included by the controller. This allows you a lot of flexibility to create layouts as you see fit.

include _VIEWS . 'header.php';
include _VIEWS . 'myview.php';
include _VIEWS . 'footer.php';

See the views/ directory and defaultController.php for examples

Environment specific configuration options can be defined in files located in src/env/

Mapping your server name to an environment happens in src/config/environments.php

_PHP defines some handy constants that can be used throughout your code.

_WEBROOT The full path to the web root directory (/path/to/project/src/www)

_MODELS The full path to the web root directory (/path/to/project/src/www/models)

_CONTROLLERS The full path to the web root directory (/path/to/project/src/www/controllers)

_VIEWS The full path to the web root directory (/path/to/project/src/www/views)

You can set a version in the src/config/version.php file. This is particularly useful for cache busting.

Anything that comes in with a version number will be routed to the corresponding location.

For example:

http://local.underscorephp.com/v1.2.3/css/bootstrap-responsive.css is the same as http://local.underscorephp.com/css/bootstrap-responsive.css

http://local.underscorephp.com/v1.2.3/underscore_php is the same as http://local.underscorephp.com/underscore_php

Check out the .htaccess file for apache. Nginx coming soon...

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