Maestro

Next-generation MVC Framework for PHP5.3+ Mimics ExpressJS/LocomotiveJS's API for PHP.

Components

• Maestro\Router\Router - @nikic's FastRoute made compatible with PHP5.3 and wrapped inside a friendlier syntax.
• Maestro\Renderer\Renderer - Dependency-less extensible rendering engine.
• Maestro\HTTP\Request - HTTP Request abstraction object
• Maestro\HTTP\Response - HTTP Response abstraction object, multiple content-type sending available.
• Maestro\Controller - Controller base class.
• Maestro\Maestro - Self-contained app with all of the above components.

Installation

Composer

As usual, put this in your composer.json file.

	"require": {
        "otak/maestro": "1.0.x"
    }

Usage

Create the following file structure at the root of your project

/app
--	/controllers
--	/models
--	/views
/config
--	/initializers
--	routes.php
/helpers
index.php

Then fill out your index.php like this

<?php

    use Maestro\Maestro;
    use Maestro\HTTP\Request;
    use Maestro\HTTP\Response;

    Maestro::gi()
        ->set('app path', __DIR__.'/app/')
        ->set('env', 'development') // change it to production when you need
        ->set('controller namespace', 'YourCompany\\Namespace')
        ->loadRoutes();

    Maestro::gi()->conduct();

More to come