Orange - Lightweight PHP framework

Universal lightweight PHP framework - Orange

Getting Started

Run, composer update

Suggestions

Consider adding following packages for extended functionalities,

"suggest": {
    "phpmailer/phpmailer": "Allows sending mails through it",
    "guzzlehttp/guzzle": "Allows communicating to APIs via http requests",
    "catfan/medoo": "Allows to do database queries more easily"
}

Controllers

Controllers will inject data in to the view before it's generated.

Database

You can handle the database either by using Medoo methods or directly using PDO.

Processes

Always should return a json response which includes compulsorily,

• status [ success | danger | warning | info ]
• message [string]
• anything else to be included with

Pages

These are the pages you can view from the front-end. Having a .htaccess rewrites GET variable used for parsing views, the framework provides pretty URLs for each view.

Simply putting a php file with the same name you want to have in the URL will give you the pleasure of having the view without having to have a routing nightmare.

Example:

• pages/about.php will give you access to [site_url]/about

Resources and Templates

This framework supports multiple templates. You can either have resources for each one of them in their own folders as well as common resources in the resources folder.

Resources

Resources folder is where it resides the commonly used fonts and images.

Templates

Each folder inside templates folder can contain a distinct template with their own resources. You can select the active template from the config file on the DOCROOT.

Files that compulsorily should contain in each template,

• header.php
• footer.php
• container.php
• menu.php [optional]

AJAX

ajax.php will route the ajax requests comes via includes/js/scripts.js. URL must be specified as site_url+'?process=[process_name as specified in the form name]'+'-process'