Liz

Intends to be a useful way to turn structure of small projects to an MVC architecture with a front Controller. Simple and small objective

Install

Install Composer

Execute: curl -s https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

Execute: php composer.phar install

Setup htaccess

create file ".htaccess" in the root project with this content

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On    
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d [OR]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f    
    RewriteRule !\.(js|ico|gif|jpg|png|css|htm|html|txt|mp3)$ index.php [NC,L]
</IfModule>

Requirements

1. PHP 5.3+
2. Enable mod_rewrite (apache)

Structure

liz
├── index.php
├── lib
│   └── Liz
│       └── Core
│           ├── Bootstrapper.php
│           ├── Configurator.php
│           ├── Controller.php
│           ├── Model.php
│           └── View.php
├── public
└── src
    └── App
        ├── Bootstrap.php
        ├── Configs
        │   └── Application.ini
        ├── Controllers
        │   └── Index.php
        ├── Layouts
        │   └── Layout.phtml
        ├── Models
        │   └── Model.php
        └── Views
            └── Index
                └── Index.phtml

./lib/Liz/Core

Contain the structure that pick up the pieces of MVC. Leave this folder in peace :)

./public

Put your JS, CSS, Fonts, Images and multimedia files here

./src/App

Your Application will be developed in this folder.

1. Bootstrap.php - Don't edit this file unless you know what you are doing!
2. Configs folder - put your configurations in this folder
3. Controllers folder - the controller file name and the classes should be the same name using CamelCase style
4. Layouts folder - contains the html code that should be used for structures that repeat
5. Models folder - the model file name and the classes should be the same name using CamelCase style
6. Views folder - the folder inside have the name of the called controller and the file (into the folder) have the name of Action (Controller's method). The file content is HTML

Controllers

Create the controllers in the folder ./src/App/Controllers. Follow example:

<?php

namespace App\Controllers;

use Liz\Core\Controller;    

class Example extends Controller
{    
    public function index()
    { 
    	# code
    }
}

ps: This Controller automatically show the View located at ./src/App/Views/Example/Index.phtml

Models

Create the models in the folder ./src/App/Models. Follow example:

<?php

namespace App\Models;

use Liz\Core\Model;

class ModelTest extends Model
{
	public function someFunction()
	{
		# code
	}
}

To call this model in some Controller follow the steps:

1. Declare use App\Models\ModelTest in your Controller
2. Just instantiate the model in function $model = new ModelTest()

Views

You can put your HTML combined with small pieces of php (passed by Controller, or not :)

Credits

I was inspired by the code of Ricardo Coelho and your project grs. Thank you bro!

Doubts, suggestions?

Open an Issue here

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2014 Hiarison Gigante

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.