Mvc Lite

Introduction

mvc-lite is a lightweight MVC Framework aimed at accomplishing common MVC goals in a much lighter package. The bulk of this work is inspired by the Zend Framework (http://framework.zend.com)

Usage

This library should be used to create a simple MVC application. If you need sophisticated application handling, consider a more robust framework, like Zend Framework, Laravel, or Symfony.

Quick Start

The mvc script can be used to help start an application quickly. It's usage is:

./bin/mvc setup --target=/local/path/to/app

Once created, adding an entire resources (i.e. Users) can be done like this:

./bin/mvc resource:create --target=/local/path/to/app --name=users

Documentation

Traits

There are a list of traits available as well. This allows for simple access to commonly used classes (i.e. Request, Config, Session). Including them in your code is as simple as:

use MvcLite\Traits\Session as SessionTrait;

Configuration

An application configuration file allows for easy configuration of the application. You can modify that file at etc/app.ini

Same Code, Multiple Formats

Multiple formats are supported for each endpoint as well. Switching the Content-Type header in the response will return a corresponding output. Caveat: There is a naming scheme to views

<script-name>.<format>.php

Where <script-name> is the name of the script being used, and <format> is the requested format. The following are the supported formats for the framework:

• html
• xml
• json

View Helpers

By default, view helpers generate bootstrap-friendly markup. We love Bootstrap, and we think you should too! The view helpers are overridable however. Simply Create App\View\Helper\<HelperName> and it's render method will be used instead.

Full Documentation

API documentation can be found at Our API Documentation

Roadmap

At the MVC-Lite team, we happily use Trello For all of our feature planning. The plan of features can be found on our Trello board.

Contact

We're available to contact on IRC at chat.freenode.net in the

#mvc-lite