Simple PHP Pages - A simple puristic PHP Website Boilerplate 🚀

Hey! This project provides simple and basic concepts for PHP pages. It includes ideas and samples for routing, pages, themes, layouts, components and portals. Just download it and use it as boilerplate for your next web project.

🛠 Included Utilities:

• Routing: Simply create speaking URLs - https://github.com/steampixel/simplePHPRouter
• Templating: The flexible component concept - https://github.com/steampixel/simplePHPComponents
• Portals: Warping around contents - https://github.com/steampixel/simplePHPPortals
• Bulma: Simple CSS Framework - https://bulma.io/

🧰 Features:

• Included routing
• Prebuild template structure
• Override and extend template files
• Build your own custom content blocks
• Create your own pages
• Working navigation example
• Working contact form example (Without really mailing)
• Works without any database
• Included CSS Framework (Bulma) can easily switched
• Prebuild 404 page

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📕 Quick start

Install

1. Download or clone this repo
2. Run composer install
3. Copy the project to your webserver or use a local server (Below is a docker setup)

Create a new page

1. Create a new page inside contents/pages
2. Create a route to this page inside the index.php file
3. Update themes/default/partials/navigation.php and add your page there

Create a new custom content element

1. Add your components template inside themes/default/content
2. Load your component inside your page template using the Component::create() method

🧭 Routing

Routing is done through simplePHPRouter. Just define additional routes inside of your index.php file like this:

Route::add('/user/([0-9]*)/edit', function($id) {
  echo 'Edit user with id '.$id.'<br>';
}, 'get');

🎨 Themes

Themes live in the themes folder. There is just one default theme at the moment. A theme consists of several Components (simplePHPComponents) and some assets like CSS and JavaScript files. The theme defines the markup of content elements, reusable particals like navigation and header and page layouts. Just extend the default theme or create your own.

The currently used theme is declared within the index.php file.

📄 Pages

A page is a instance of simplePHPComponents. It will act as some kind of a controller. A page defines its contents and will load a layout from the theme. Then the page will push the contents to the main content section of the used theme. Copy and create new pages if you want. Do not forget to create a route to your new page:

Route::add('/my-new-page', function() {
  Component::create('page/my-new-page')->print();
});

🧱 Content Blocks

Imagine blocks as stackable and reusable content templates that live inside the theme folder in themes/default/content. Every page will consist of one ore more of this blocks. A content block is also an instance of simplePHPComponents. Content blocks can be text, text with images, sliders, hero-elements, tabs, tables, etc. Simply print and reuse a content block by using Component::create():

Component::create('content/hero')->assign(['title' => 'Welcome', 'subtitle' => 'Lorem Ipsum'])

▦ Layouts

A layout is part of the current theme. A layout just describes the HTML markup around the contents. It defines the header, the body and the general alignment of the contents. Every page should load a layout first. Every layout is an instance of simplePHPComponents.

Component::create('layout/boxed')->assign([
  'title' => 'About',
  'subtitle' => 'Learn more about us',
  'lang' => 'en'
])->print();

🕳 Portals

Portals will be used to throw contents to a defined point inside your app. For example a theme will somewhere inside open a contents-main portal. Using this Portal you can throw contents to there from any other point of your app. Read more about Portals: simplePHPPortals

Portal::send('contents-main', 'Hello World');

🚢 Test setup with Docker

I have created a little Docker test setup.

1. Build the image: docker build -t simplephppages docker/image-php-7.4.1
2. Spin up a container: docker run -d -p 80:80 -v $(pwd):/var/www/html --name simplephppages simplephppages
3. Bash into the container with docker exec -i -t simplephppages /bin/bash and run composer install to install dependencys on first run
4. Open your browser and navigate to http://localhost

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for further information.