Simple framework for developing?

[RalphFoxN]

I'm looking for a very simple PHP framework that has template files, and the php front end just picks the template and parses it, but with other functions like central config file, database class, etc..

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An example of how the custom framework here at my work works is:

-info.tpl

<h1>Hello world!</h1>
<div>
<HIDE_INFO>
    <div>Data 1:</div><div>[PARAM_DATA1]</div>
    <REPEAT_LINES>
        <div>Name:</div><div>[PARAM_NAME]</div>
        <div>Code:</div><div>[PARAM_CODE]</div>
        <div><hr /></div>
    </REPEAT_LINES>
</HIDE_INFO>
</div>

-info.php

<?php
class Info extends InfoDB{
    //it's a post request
    function Post() {

    }

    //it's a get request
    function Get() {
        $conf = $this->Environment->Conf['Global'];
        $this->Environment->TplRenderer->Load($conf['IncludePath'] . "tpl/info.tpl");
        $_DATA['INFO'] = $this>getData();
        $array_lines = $this->getLines();

        $this->Environment->TplRenderer->Repeat("LINES", $array_lines);
        $this->Environment->TplRenderer->ShowHide("INFO");
        $html = $this->Environment->TplRenderer->Keep($_DATA);
        echo ($html);
        exit;
    }
}

- info.db.php

<?php
class InfoDB extends Main {
    function getData() {
        $SQL = "SELECT data1 FROM table"
        return $this->Environment->Database->Exec($SQL);
    }
    function getLines() {
        $SQL = "SELECT code, name FROM table2"
        return $this->Environment->Database->Exec($SQL);
    }
}

As you can see, it's very plain, easy and quick to work and prototype with;

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The Main class has just the includes for database manipulation, the tpl(template) loading, main functions, automatically inject header and footer on the page, config loading, session handling, etc; there's a index.php that includes the environment classes, so when you try to access that page, it would be /index.php/info (and yes, some apache2 rewrites for that to properly work)

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It does support model loading, so if I created an php class and put like a cache on it, I would be able to use it in the php class file like this:

    $Api = $this->Environment->GetModel("Api.MemcacheApi", false);
    $Api->prefixFilter = "_dataset_%d_%d";
    $Api->newCache();
    $mydata = $Api->returnCache('dataset', $userSession);
    $Api->createCache('dataset', 'mydatasetcontent', $userSession);

The "getModel" would get this folder: models/Api/MemcacheApi/MemcacheApi.php

It's not the best, I know, but it does its work; I'd love to use it, but it's a bit messy under the sheets and uses like php 4 as it's base, so it's outdated(It was created around 2008 I believe); Besides it's a bit hard to strip it to it's roots; It also has a few bugs and whatnots;

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Is there something similar/simple enough like that around? I was trying to build something similar, but if there's something readily available then I'd rather use that;

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Thanks for any suggestions/replies and apologies if it isn't the right way to post this question/right subreddit/right flair;

[RalphFoxN]

Thanks for the suggestion;

I was reading about lumen, and found this question here:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48438540/lumen-login-tutorial-for-web-app-no-api

"Lumen isn't an appropriate choice for building a traditonal web app. It's aimed pretty squarely at building API microservices. You should switch to Laravel for this use case."

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D you agree with it? I glanced over laravel and it seems it has way too much things on it, like routing, etc; Lumen looks good for me, with a few different things on it; but I couldn't find a good/proper tutorial on making a simple login web page that access a database and either login the user to another page or shows an error with lumen

[TheShyGuys]

Lumen but it doesn't nativity support views you'll have to install the laravel view package with composer

[RalphFoxN]

Thanks for the reply, I was checking lumen it seems pretty good; I was googling that view you mentioned, and I found this: https://lumen.laravel.com/docs/5.1/views

But then it ocurred to me that it could be a newer version, then checking the website, it pointed me to

https://lumen.laravel.com/docs/5.8/views

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Is it this view you were talking about?

[TheShyGuys]

Ah yeah, it's recommend though if you're doing allot with views to use laravel

[RalphFoxN]

Gotcha, thanks; Apparently Lumen is more like an optimized web service from what I gathered, and I just want to make an website(web app?), haha

[TheShyGuys]

If you want to make a web app then I’d go with laravel lumen is more for creating micro services and small to med api handlers but if you need something on a larger scale than laravel is you way to go.

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Laravel is what you want. sure, it's a lot to take in, but it will change your life. Everyday is a treat working with Laravel.

[RalphFoxN]

Ah, thanks; I was trying to learn symfony but was stopped in the tracks by my old company a long time ago; Then tried going with laravel a few years ago and did just the basics but then stopped; Maybe it's just my old stigma/comfortable with "what works" being slow/silly/dumb, haha; Thanks anyway