Simple and generic web framework based on PHP, mostly only routing and templating.
- Make sure PHP is available on your system. We recommend PHP 8 or above. [PHP installation manual]
- Make sure Composer is available on your system. [Composer installation manual]
Still confuse about above things? Just ask on Discussions channel
- Clone this repository
- Go to the project directory (usually using
cdcommand) - Run
composer -vvv install(this command is to install the dependencies, will createvendordirectory) - Run
php -S 0.0.0.0:4000 -t public(this command is to run the built-in PHP web server for development purpose) - Open the web on your browser at
http://localhost:4000(until this point it means we already have/route that handle the home page)
It depends on your imagination. For example in our use case, we use this framework with Alpine.js to handle the reactivity, add date-fns to manipulate date, add Tailwind CSS for nice styling flow and sometimes add Flowbite to take the component advantage of nice visual UI. The limit is your creativity.
- Want to add new route such as /about or anything? Just go to
src/_routes.phpand add there. Observe the current code. After you create new route usually you will create a method onApplicationclass (located atsrc/Application.php) to execute some code (a.k.a controller) before you render some visual page (a.k.a view). - Can I deploy to shared hosting? Yes, but you should point the website to the
publicfolder, since that folder is the entry point or commonly said as web root directory. There isindex.phpfile there and everything starts from that script. - Can I deploy using Docker? Yes, we will give the docker-compose sample later.
- Why another framework? Is Laravel or Symfony not enough? Hmmmm, you know my motivation create this framework is just for fun and learn. So nothing can stop me to create something haha.
- Why the name is Doitsu? Rian Cintiyo propose the name and I think that's very good name, so we continue with that. It's Japanese word that means Germany.
- What do you use for doing routing? We use Symfony Routing component.
- What template engine do you use? We use Twig template engine.
- There are 2 ways to add Alpine JS :
- Adding Alpine JS by including it from a
<script>tag- Importing it as a module
You can add Alpine Js using CDN by adding it on template/base.html.twig file and place it before end of </head> markup like image bellow.
<html>
<head>
...
<script defer src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/dist/cdn.min.js"></script>
</head>
...
</html> defer inside script tag in here to make the script is downloaded in parallel to parsing the page, and executed after the page has finished parsing. Read more in here.
You can also add Alpine JS as a module!, and how to do that is shown on the list bellow:
1. Run the following command to install it:
npm install alpinejs
2. Import Alpine into your bundle and initialize it like so:
import Alpine from 'alpinejs'
Alpine.start()
To read more detail how to install Alpine, Read here.
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