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What is it?

Peppers is a Web MVC PHP framework designed for the developer who focuses on separation of concerns first, building small units of work which can be pipelined together to provide a response to a request. It tries to be fully customizable, allowing the developer to create its own code for core tasks.

What can it do?

Abstract & Concrete Object Factory
Content Negotiation
Credential Management For Multiple Datasources
Database Access (PDO, MySQL only)
Dependency Injection
Events
Input Validation
Local Files
Logging
Model Repositories (SQL only)
Multiple Database access
ORM
Promises (SQL only)
Routing
Services
Views

What it's not?

Peppers is not a full blown Web framework like Symphony and it's not particulary fast either.

What can't it do?

Assets
Authentication & Authorization
Connection Pooling
Cookies
Full REST (no PUT or PATCH support yet)
Internationalization
Offline Jobs
Remote Caching (Memcached, Redis, etc)
Remote Files
Sessions
Translations
Users
Websockets

How does this work?

In a nutshell, the Kernel takes care of booting the framework and application and shutting it down after a response has been sent to the client.

Booting

It starts the necessary configuration files exist and its content is valid. Then loads the loaders for the services, routing, event handling and/or any custom code by the developer.

Request & Response Processing

The Kernel gets the route asserted by the Router. Then it starts a pipeline that gets a request handler instance from the Factory, processes the request, processes the data returned from the handler and sends a response back to the client, following the standard content negotiation rules. The end of the pipeline run signals the Kernel that a response has been sent back to the client.

Shutting It Down

The Kernel then signals the ServiceLocator to signal registered services to run any shutdown routine they might have. This includes the EventStore service; makes it process any deferred event that might have been registered.

Bugs

Most likely, please report them on Github.

Comments and sugestions

Send to peppers.php.framework@gmail.com

Thank you :)

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