This is my personal backend Plain (vanilla) PHP Framework which follows the MVC Design Pattern (Model-View-Controller Architecture), and is entirely Object-oriented (OOP). This robust framework is made to mimic and be mostly similar to the famous Laravel framework. I promise you if you understand the inner workings of this framework, you'll very well understand how Laravel works under the hood. This project script is written entirely in plain PHP (OOP) and aims to demonstrate the implementation of an MVC framework imitating the well-known development market frameworks such as Laravel and CodeIgniter without relying on any external libraries or frameworks.
Frontend technologies used: AJAX, jQuery, JavaScript and Bootstrap (Responsive Design/Mobile First Design).
Products Index Page:
MVC Design Pattern:
1- MVC Design Pattern (Separation of Concerns).
2- Service Container Class (Similar to Laravel's).
3- Routing System (Router Class).
4- Custom Autoloading Class (No external Composer Autoloader).
5- Custom DotENV file reader Class (No external DotENV file reader package).
6- Middlewares implementation.
7- Protected Routes (using a custom Authentication Middleware Class).
8- Entry Point/Script index.php file for the whole application.
9- Login System utilizing a custom Session Class.
10- Session Flash Messages.
11- AJAX Live Search.
12- Multilingual Support.
13- Custom Pagination implementation.
14- Database CRUD Operations Classes.
15- File Upload.
16- Registration, Validation, Authentication and Authorization.
17- Responsive / Mobile first Design using Bootstrap.
All the application routes are defined in the index.php file inside the "public" folder.
** Check the project's API Collection on my Postman Profile: https://www.postman.com/ahmed-yahya/workspace/my-public-portfolio-postman-workspace/collection/28181483-b75ee244-bbf8-48a9-8a98-9ca3b6c8b036
GET /api/produtcts : Get/Retrieve All produtcs
GET /api/products/{id} : Get/Retrieve a Single product
** Note: You can test the framework API Endpoints using Postman. Here is the Postman Collection .json file Postman Collection you can download and import in your Postman.
1- Clone the project or download it.
2- Create a MySQL database named `my_plain_php_mvc_oop_framework` and import the database SQL Dump file Database SQL Dump file.
3- Navigate to the .env file .env and configure/edit/update it with your MySQL database credentials and other configuration settings.
4- Navigate to the project "public" folder/directory (where the Entry Point index.php file is placed) using the cd terminal command, and then start your PHP built-in Development Web Server by running the command: php -S localhost:8000.
**Note: Whatever your Web Server is, you must configure its Web Root Directory to be the application "public" folder which contains the index.php file (Entry Point) in order for the Routing System to function properly.
5- In your browser, go to http://localhost:8000/.
6- Credentials of a ready-to-use registered user account are:
Email: ahmed.yahya@example.com, Password: 12345678
Contributions to my personal backend Plain PHP MVC OOP Framework are most welcome! If you find any issues or have suggestions for improvements, want to add new features or want to contribute code or documentation, please open an issue or submit a pull request.