README

Platon is yet another framework that goes on top of Wordpress, heavily inspired by Laravel Platon makes Wordpress object oriented, with some smart automagic added to it.

Installation

• composer create-project iamfredric/platon-theme your-path --stability=dev
• Replace all occurances of [THEME_TITLE] with the title of your theme. (style.css + config/app.php)
• Replace all occurances of [THEME_SLUG] with the slug of your theme. (style.css + config/app.php)

Routing

Normally, WordPress decides what template to render by looking at your file names.

In platon, this works. However, it's not the idea. Instead, there are a routes/web.php-file where we define routes.

The routes correspond with the wordpress template naming scheme.

<?php

use Platon\Facades\Route;

Route::register('front-page', [PageController::class, 'home']);
Route::register('page', [PageController::class, 'show']);

Route::register('index', [PostController::class, 'index']);
Route::register('single', [PostController::class, 'show']);

Route::register('single-project', [PostController::class, 'index']);

Controllers

Controllers are just a place to process the data before it hits the view-layer.

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use App\Models\Page;

class PageController 
{
    public function show(Page $page): View
    {
        return view('pages.show', compact('page'));
    }
}

The page is resolved from the Container. This basically translates to:

$page = Page::current();

Models

The models are really just a wrapper for the WP_Post object.

It comes with some nice features.

For example, this is a post, the model name decides what the post type is.

class Post extends Model 
{}

<h1>{{ $post->title }}</h1>
<time datetime="{{ $post->created }}">
    Created at: {{ $post->created->format('j F Y') }}
</time>    

<div>
    {!! $post->content !!}
</div>