README

Miny is a small PHP framework. It is constantly under development and not recommended for production use. Miny is developed as a microframework but its abilities can be extended by powerful modules.

Miny is licensed under the MIT License.

Requirements

• PHP 7
• Composer

Installation, basic usage

An empty application template is available here

If you wish to use the default logging options, create a writable directory called /logs.

Environments

There are three separate environments available: development and production. The current environment can be set via the Application class' constructor and determines which configuration files should be used. By default the environment setting also determines if debug-level logging is enabled.

The default environment is the production environment.

Defining the environment to be used

When instantiating the Application class, pass the desired constant as the first argument of the constructor.

$app = new Application(Application::ENV_DEV);

The available constants are:

• Application::ENV_DEV - development environment
• Application::ENV_TEST - testing environment
• Application::ENV_PROD - production environment

Configuration

Configuration files are pure PHP files containing an array of configuration options. Configuration files are located in the /config directory of the application.

Four different configuration files can be defined:

• config.common.php for all environments
• config.dev.php will be used only for the development environment
• config.test.php will be loaded for the test environment
• config.php for the production environment

config.common.php contains the baseline configuration. Setting a value here will act as a default that can be overridden by the environment-specific configuration files.

Services

Using the Inversion of Control container

Miny comes with a powerful Inversion of Control (IoC) container called Container. It can be used to create object instances with their dependencies automatically injected.

Obtaining the Container

The Container instance can be obtained by calling $app->getContainer().

Basic usage

Instantiating a class is as easy as calling the get method and passing the class name.

$instance = $container->get('\\Namespace\\ClassName');

Why is this any good? For the simplest of use cases, this method only generates a lot of overhead. However when a class has multiple dependencies on other objects not yet instantiated, Container will take care of tracking down all the necessary data needed to create the class.

TBD