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Spark is a full stack framework built on top of Silex, made for Rapid Development in the same spirit as Ruby on Rails.

Spark is a framework for people who believe:

The structure of most applications are nearly the same.
Convention > Configuration
Asset management should be shipped out of the box.
ORMs solve 80% of problems.

Building a framework is of course a huge project, so there isn't nearly all done. This is what works for now:

Application generator.
Asset Pipeline based on Pipe, with deployment support.
Action Controllers with Action and View Helpers built on Traits, and support for multiple templating strategies.
Basic framework for generators.
Extensible command line utility based on Symfony Console.

Quick Start

Create an Application

First get the spark executable:

% wget http://chh.github.com/spark/spark.phar

Then invoke the create command and grab some coffee while Composer installs all dependencies:

% php spark.phar create MyApp

Go into the application directory and start a development server:

% cd MyApp
% ./vendor/bin/spark server

Then open http://localhost:3000 in your browser, you should see "Hello World" in big letters.

Controllers

Controllers make your application do things when someone views it in their browser. Controllers go into the directory app/controllers/, and are best generated by the generate controller command:

% ./vendor/bin/spark generate controller user

If you open up app/controllers/MyApp/UserController.php you should see this:

<?php

namespace MyApp;

class UserController
{
    function indexAction()
    {
    }
}

Each controller consists of actions. Each action is a public method of the controller class, and ends with "Action".

The HTML goes into a "View". The view's file name gets taken from the controller and action name. For example for the "index" action in the "UserController" the view "user/index.phtml" gets used.

Put this into app/views/user/index.phtml:

<h1>Hello World <?= $this->name ?>!</h1>

The view has access to each property of the controller class. This allows you to pass variables from the controller to the view. Also add the parameter name to the method, we will need it later.

<?php

namespace MyApp;

class UserController
{
    function indexAction($name)
    {
        $this->name = $name;
    }
}

The last part of getting our controller to do something (remotely) useful, is to add a route. A Route connects a URI to a controller and action. Routes are configured in config/routes.php.

This will do for now:

$routes->match('/user/{name}', 'user#index');

That thing within the curly braces is a variable, which gets extracted from the URI and then gets assigned the name name. We've previously declared that our action needs an argument name, so Spark figures this out and passes the route variable along to the action.

Last but not least, we assign the controller and action to the route. This is done with $controller#$action. Controller names are converted from under_score to UnderScore and then suffixed with Controller. So user gets transformed to UserController.

If you open http://localhost:3000/user/John%20Doe in your browser you should see "Hello World John Doe!" in big letters.

License

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

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