StatelessCMS

Object-oriented PHP building-blocks for websites and webapps.

Introduction

StatelessCMS is a headless PHP framework designed for creating database-driven PHP applications, "headless" meaning there is no existing front-end. StatelessCMS isn't an app or a CMS itself - it just gives you the building blocks to create one yourself.

Installation

Minimum Requirements

Get a server running PHP 7.0 and a SQL database. Note that apache is recommended, as Request::getHeaders() and Request::getToken() rely on apache_get_headers() as of v0.0.3

Composer Install

The easiest way to install StatelessCMS is to install with Composer:

composer require stateless/cms

Web Download

Download the latest release from https://github.com/StatelessSoftware/StatelessCMS/releases.

Development

If you would like the live development branch instead, download or clone from github. https://github.com/StatelessSoftware/StatelessCMS.git

Setting up your first project

Although you are free to use any directory structure you choose, the common basic structure for StatelessCMS is as follows. Don't worry too much about the specifics - we'll create each part step by step.

|- app
    |- Controller
    |- Form
    |- FormInput
    |- Layout
    |- Menu
    |- Model
    |- View
    |- app.php
    |- functions.php
|- conf
    |- app.conf.php
|- public
    |- css
    |- js
    |- .htaccess
    |- index.php
|- vendor
    |- stateless

If you didn't already, install StatelessCMS to vendor/stateless (follow installation instructions above)

Getting started

Open public/index.php. Insert the following code:

<?php
namespace Stateless;

require_once("../vendor/autoload.php");

echo "Home";

If you downloaded and installed StatelessCMS without using Composer, change ../vendor/autoload.php to your StatelessCMS.php file

About public/index.php

This file is the entry point, meaning it is the start of the program. For now, we will use it to show our examples. Later, we can use it to startup our application.

Test

Open a browser and navigate to localhost/public/ You should see Home.

Configuring your server

Ensure your httpd document root is set to public/ Now navigate to localhost/ and you should see Home

Enable mod_rewrite (Clean URLs)

In a directory block for public, set AllowOverride All
Copy the following htaccess file to public/.htaccess

You may need to install mod_rewrite

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

Several pages

Now we will create additional pages with clean urls. Replace index.php with the following code

<?php
namespace Stateless;
require_once("../vendor/autoload.php");

switch (Request::getPath()) {
    case "/":
        echo "Home";
    break;

    case "/about":
        echo "Read all about us!";
    break;

    case "/contact":
        echo "Contact us.";
    break;

    default:
        Response::header(404);
        echo "Page not found.";
    break;

}

Load up localhost/about in your browser, you should see "Read all about us!"

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