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Slim MVC Skell with Smarty template engine

This is pure slim framework 4 with Smarty template engine skeleton. This project is only a index.php and directory structure to get templates from pre-defined locations based on controller/action

Built With

I could not have created this skeleton without the following contributions:

• Slim Framework
• Smarty
• Slim Smarty View
• Slim MVC
• Composer

Installation

Just clone this repository, and download dependencies with composer

$ git clone https://github.com/scorninpc/slim-mvc-skel.git mywebsite.com.br
$ cd mywebsite.com.br
$ composer update
$ php -S localhost:8080

This commands will:

• download this repository;
• update dependencies, like slim and smarty;
• create auload
• start php build-in server

Getting Started

To create a new page, you need:

• create a new route
• create or use a existing controller
• create a action
• create the template file

Routes

Routes are located on application/configs/routes.php files. This structure are simple:

'test' => [                             // Name of route
	'pattern' => "/hello[/{somevar}]",  // URL
	'type' => ['GET'],                  // Type
	'defaults' => [
		'module' => "main",             // Controller
		'controller' => "index",        // Controller
		'action' => "hello",            // Action
		'somevar' => 1                  // Some parameter, default if not passed on url
	],
],

Controllers

Now you need to create the controller, located on Controller directory of the module. The pattern are create with nameController.php, like productsController.php or pagesController.php The class must extends \Slim\Mvc\Controller to provide the view and create location of template files

Actions

With controller on hands, now its time to create the action, who will trigged on page access. When user access the route, the skel will call nameController::nameAction() method. So, if you have a route that call products controller, and details action, the skel will trigger productsController::detailsAction()

In that example, your controller will be something like:

<?php

namespace Application\Main\Controllers;

class productsController extends \Slim\Mvc\Controller
{

	public function detailsAction()
	{
		
	}
}

Views

This skel will use the pattern ControllerName + ActionName to create a path of template file, located on Views directory. So on the example above, you will create the file application/modules/Main/Views/products/details.tpl to store your HTML of this page, who will added to application/modules/Main/Views/layouts/template.tpl layout content.

Modules

Now this skell use modules as default, but if you want to remove modules, change routes to remove modules variable from routes. Something like:

'test' => [                                     // Name of route
	'pattern' => "/hello[/{somevar}]",      // URL
	'type' => ['GET'],                      // Type
	'defaults' => [
		//'module' => "main",           // Module
		'controller' => "index",        // Controller
		'action' => "hello",            // Action
		'somevar' => 1                  // Some parameter, default if not passed on url
	],
],

And need to remove module directory folder from application/configs/config.development.php. Something like:

	'application' => [
		'name' => "Application",
		'location' => dirname(__FILE__) . "/..",
		// 'modules_location' => dirname(__FILE__) . "/../modules",
	],

Now you need to change `composer.json`` to change directory of your classes:

	"autoload": {
        "psr-4": {
            "Application\\": "application/"
        }
    }

This will look for controller in application/Controllers/indexController.php, action helloAction(), and will look for template in application/Views/index/hello.tpl

Contributing

If you want to help, just use it. Use issues tab to recommend anything that can help, like some config, some library like database, or anything usefull

Authors

• Bruno Pitteli Gonçalves

Credits

I cannot forget to thanks Slim equip, to provide some fast, minimalist and cute framework, and Smarty community for the better template enginer created

License

This use GNU v3.0. This permissions are strong copyleft license and are conditioned on making available complete source code of licensed works and modifications, which include larger works using a licensed work, under the same license. Copyright and license notices must be preserved. Contributors provide an express grant of patent rights.

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