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Phalcon Application is built on top of Phalcon3 Framework and provides simple and customizable application bootstrapping.

Requirements

• Phalcon3 is needed, follow install steps at https://github.com/phalcon/cphalcon

Installation

Install the latest version with

$ composer require mamuz/phalcon-application

Features

• Autoloading with Composer
• Simple mvc configuration
• Service registration
• XHR friendly view renderer

Usage

Bootstrapping an application without view support, e.g. a REST application

$config = [
    'dispatcher' => [
        // define class namespace identifier of your controllers
        'controllerDefaultNamespace' => 'Rest\Controller',
    ],
    'routes' => [
        // see Router::add in https://docs.phalconphp.com/en/latest/reference/routing.html
        'default' => [
            'pattern'     => '/:controller/:action',
            'paths'       => ['controller' => 1, 'action' => 2], // Optional
            'httpMethods' => ['GET'], // Optional
            'position'    => 1, // Optional
        ],
    ],
    // register custom service factories implementing the InjectableInterface
    // see: https://github.com/mamuz/phalcon-application/blob/master/src/Application/Service/InjectableInterface.php
    // Key is the name to refer to Phalcon's DI, value is the FQCN of the service factory
    'services' => [
        'user'   => 'User\Service\Factory',
        'logger' => 'Logger\Service\Factory',
    ],
];

// make everything relative to the application root
chdir(dirname(__DIR__));

// Composer Autoloader (see: https://getcomposer.org/doc/01-basic-usage.md#autoloading)
include './vendor/autoload.php';

// bootstrap and run your application
Phapp\Application\Bootstrap::init($config)->runApplicationOn($_SERVER);

For more details have a look to the functional tests at https://github.com/mamuz/phalcon-application/blob/master/tests/functional/ActionDomainResponseCest.php based on that example project.

Bootstrapping an application with view support (mostly to response with rendered HTML)

Check https://docs.phalconphp.com/en/latest/reference/views.html for using views in Phalcon.

Phalcon's view engine supports the three-step view template pattern. That means you can have a main-layout (outerframe), which includes a controller based layout (frame), which in turn includes an action based layout (innerframe).

Like this:

<outerframe>
    I am the main layout.
    <frame>
        I am the controller based layout.
        <innerframe>
            I am the action based layout.
        </innerframe>
    </frame>
</outerframe>

So each controller action can have an own template for rendering.

For instance you have a controller with two actions like:

• User::loginAction
• User::logoutAction

This leads to two view templates located at:

• {viewbasepath}\user\login.phtml
• {viewbasepath}\user\logout.phtml

Regarding the three-step view template pattern you can place these ones at:

• {viewbasepath}\index.phtml (outerframe must be named as index and needs to be placed at the root level)
• {viewbasepath}\layouts\user.phtml (frame must be named like the controller and needs to be placed inside layouts folder)

In case of ajax requests (XHR) outerframe and frame rendering is disabled, which means only the innerframe is rendered.

$config = [
    'dispatcher' => [
        // define class namespace identifier of your controllers
        'controllerDefaultNamespace' => 'Mvc\Controller',
    ],
    'routes' => [
        // see Router::add in https://docs.phalconphp.com/en/latest/reference/routing.html
        'default' => [
            'pattern'     => '/:controller/:action',
            'paths'       => ['controller' => 1, 'action' => 2], // Optional
            'httpMethods' => ['GET'], // Optional
            'position'    => 1, // Optional
        ],
    ],
    // register custom service factories implementing the InjectableInterface
    // see: https://github.com/mamuz/phalcon-application/blob/master/src/Application/Service/InjectableInterface.php
    // Key is the name to refer to Phalcon's DI, value is the FQCN of the service factory
    'services' => [
        'user'   => 'User\Service\Factory',
        'logger' => 'Logger\Service\Factory',
    ],
    // declare the basepath for the view templates, which enables Phalcon's view engine
    'view' => [
        'templatePath' => './view',
    ],
];

// make everything relative to the application root
chdir(dirname(__DIR__));

// Composer Autoloader (see: https://getcomposer.org/doc/01-basic-usage.md#autoloading)
include './vendor/autoload.php';

// bootstrap and run your application
Phapp\Application\Bootstrap::init($config)->runApplicationOn($_SERVER);

For more details have a look to the functional tests at https://github.com/mamuz/phalcon-application/blob/master/tests/functional/ViewCest.php based on that example project.

Bootstrapping an application as a command line tool

Check https://docs.phalconphp.com/en/latest/reference/cli.html#tasks for creating tasks.

$config = [
    'dispatcher' => [
        // define class namespace identifier of your tasks
        'taskDefaultNamespace' => 'Command\Task',
    ],
    // register custom service factories implementing the InjectableInterface
    // see: https://github.com/mamuz/phalcon-application/blob/master/src/Application/Service/InjectableInterface.php
    // Key is the name to refer to Phalcon's DI, value is the FQCN of the related service factory
    'services' => [
        'user'   => 'User\Service\Factory',
        'logger' => 'Logger\Service\Factory',
    ],
];

// make everything relative to the application root
chdir(dirname(__DIR__));

// Composer Autoloader (see: https://getcomposer.org/doc/01-basic-usage.md#autoloading)
include './vendor/autoload.php';

// bootstrap and run your application
Phapp\Application\Bootstrap::init($config)->runApplicationOn($_SERVER);

Run a command with arguments

Let's imagine that the application is bootstrapped inside index.php

$ php index.php mailing send reminder

That will call the send action from the mailing task with invoking reminder as an argument.

Run a command with arguments and options

Let's imagine that the application is bootstrapped inside index.php

$ php index.php mailing send reminder --sender=foo@bar.com --bcc=baz@bar.com

That will call the send action from the mailing task with invoking reminder as an argument. Inside the send action the options are aware by $this->dispatcher->getOptions().

For more details have a look to the functional tests at https://github.com/mamuz/phalcon-application/blob/master/tests/functional/CommandLineCest.php based on that example project.

Application Skeleton

To have a good starting place you should check the skeleton which is based on this project.