Pip, a web server for gentlemen

Pip (or Phillip Pirrip) is the main character from the Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations, who leaves his life as a blacksmith's apprentice and goes to London to become a gentleman.

Pip is also the name of a web development bundle containing the following:

a pure PHP web server inspired by Unicorn
a web server interface specification inspired by Rack and WSGI
a framework inspired by Pylons and Google App Engine

Getting Started With Pip

"Hello World" in Pip.

hello.php

<?php

require 'pip/http.php';
require 'pip/webapp.php';

class HelloWorld extends pip\webapp\RequestHandler {
  function get() {
    $this->response->content_type = 'text/plain';
    fwrite($this->response, 'Hello, world!');
  }
}

$app = new pip\webapp\PipApplication(array(
  array('/', 'HelloWorld'),
));

if (!debug_backtrace()) {
  $server = new pip\servers\Http();
  $server->start($app);
}

Run in a shell.

$ php hello.php
[INFO:pip] pip is serving HTTP from localhost on port 5000

See examples/ for more.

Requirements and Installation

Pip requires PHP 5.3. It uses namespaces, closures and some new array functions.

See INSTALL for instructions on installing.

Bugs

A lot (probably).

To Do

Change HTTP parser (looking at antlr3 and PECL's HTTP parser)
Populate PHP superglobals (e.g. $_POST, $_SERVER) when rendering PHP
Make more PHP-ish
Convert tests to PHPUnit
Experiment with using an output buffering callback for chunked transfer

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