HERE BE DRAGONS: This project is very dead and published here only as a curiosity for people with morbid interests

PHP on Crutches

PHP on Crutches is a web application framework for PHP with a focus on convention over configuration. It's loosely based on Ruby on Rails and clones like CakePHP.

Features

MVC-like structure with dispatcher, controllers, models and views
Database-agnostic model implementation with validation
ORM with ActiveRecord and lazily-evaluated querysets
Internationalization with gettext and multi-language templates
Modular cache store with support for Xcache, APC, and files
Logger with colored output and optional MySQL query analysis
Configuration system with environments
Test framework based on SimpleTest
Code coverage generator (needs Xdebug)
Server launcher for lighttpd
Interactive PHP console (needs rlwrap)

Requirements

PHP 5.2.3 or newer, with PDO and the necessary database drivers
Debian or something similar helps (and is needed for some features)

It's only tested on Apache and lighttpd with MySQL and SQLite.

Configuration

Use config/application.php for global settings
Use config/environments/* for environment-specific settings
See lib/config.php for all available settings and defaults
You can define Rails-style routes in config/routes.php
You can configure your database connections in config/database.php
The included script/server should run lighttpd configured for URL rewriting.
(Note: serving files outside of images, stylesheets and javascripts doesn't work.)

Usage

Here are a few pointers to get started:

If your webserver is setup correctly (or you use script/server) you should see a welcome page with some information about your system.
Use script/generate vor some (very) basic scaffolding.
Create models in app/models, e.g. for the model User you would use the file app/models/user.php. The model can either extend from the base Model or from ActiveRecord.
Create controllers in app/controllers, e.g. for the path /foo you would create a FooController in app/controllers/foo_controller.php. The controller needs to extend from ApplicationController.
For each action, add a public method to the controller with the same name as the action. Further path parts will be used as arguments to this method, e.g. for the path /foo/edit/1 you would create a method edit($id).
Inside the action, use $this->set($key, $value) to assign values to the view.
Create views in app/views/foo, e.g. for the action edit you would create the file app/views/foo/edit.thtml. This is a normal PHP file where you can display the variables assigned in the controller.
Add generic helper functions in app/helpers/application_helper.php.
Add controller-specific helper functions in app/helpers, e.g. for the FooController you would create app/helpers/foo_helper.php.

For further details please refer to the source code...

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