lolmvc: Simply Powerful

lolmvc, is meant to be a framework you can wrap your mind around. It's primary purpose is to facilitate learning MVC by doing, but could also make a nice base framework for a real app.

Development Status

Just shy of it's first release (1.0.0), though fully functional.

Features

• Super Fast
• PHP-FIG PSR Compliant
• Convention over Configuration
• Sematic versioning
• Implements MVC design pattern (fat model)
• Annotation based URL routing (phpdoc tag style)
• Composer use is fully integrated (Composer aware autoloader)
• Intuitive design, intended to be easy to wrap your mind around
• Database agnostic (although we recommend MongoDB, if you need one)
• Run multiple apps within the same framework under different vhosts
• All about choices, choose your own DB, templating engine, etc.
• Write your own services as traits or classes, shared across apps.

Requirements

• A web-server (nginx recommended)
• PHP 5.4+

License

Friendly MIT Licensed

Quick Start

Overview

Directory Structure

www
 |-framework
	|- lolmvc
	|	|- model		(abstract models and model interfaces)
	|	|- view			(default views like json, etc)
	|	|- controller	(abstract controller and controller interfaces)
	|	|- service		(bundled services, aka helpers or plugins)
	|
	|- myapp			(your app name/directory correlates to your app's namespace)
	|	|- model		(model classes for your controllers)
	|	|- view			(your views)
	|	|- controller	(your controllers)
	|	|- service		(your own services, aka helpers or plugins)
	|	|- webroot		(myapp.example.com webserver points to this directory)
	|
	|- vendor			(composer installed dependencies)

How to start your app

All apps have what is called a front controller. In an lolmvc app, that is the index.php file in your app's webroot directory. Here is an example index.php from myapp/webroot using the directory structure above.

<?php
namespace 'Myapp\Controller';

require '../../lolmvc/app.php';
$app = new \Lolmvc\App('myapp');

// use app level config
// $app->useLocalConfig();

$app->run();

Redhat Openshift (in development)

First, head on over to http://openshift.redhat.com and create an account. Then install the client tools: https://openshift.redhat.com/community/developers/rhc-client-tools-install and follow the code below.

# awesome one-liner
rhc app create myapp diy -n mynamespace --from-code=http://github.com/lolmvc/openshift-quickstart.git

OR Heroku (in development)

First head on over to http://heroku.com and create an account. Then install the heroku toolbelt: https://toolbelt.heroku.com and follow the code below.

# awesome one-liner
heroku create myapp --buildpack http://github.com/lolmvc/heroku-buildpack

OR Install on your own webserver

# go to where your webserver serves up it's sites
cd /var/www/

# get lolmvc
git clone git@github.com:lolmvc/framework.git

cd framework

# install composer (if you don't already have it)
curl -s https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

# run composer to install all lolmvc dependencies
php composer.phar install

Then, create your app

# make a copy of the *skeleton* app for your app directory
cp skel myapp

For more information, please see the documentation under /doc.

Finally

Point your webserver to serve up the webroot directory under your app directory.

You can run multiple apps under the same lolmvc install, which can all consume classes from both lolmvc and your other apps.