PHP Composer Based Framework and Components

Neuron-PHP is an array of PHP composer based packages that when combined make up a lightweight MVC framework.

It consists of the following components:

Level 1: Foundation

• Core - Core resources, data types and exceptions.
• Formatting - Formatting for currency, dates/times and phone numbers.
• Data - Data objects, parsers, generic settings manager (ini,yaml,memory,env).
• Validation - Validation for many different types of data.
• Patterns - Design patterns such as Singleton, Observer, Criteria, Command and Registry.
• Util - Core utilities like timers, language mapping, .env handling and temporary files.

Level 2: Infrastructure

• Logging - An extensive logging component with many log destinations and formatters.
• Events - Emit events to various broadcasters.
• Application - Facade for creating normal/CLI applications.
• Routing - A simple router that can handle RESTful routes.
• DTO - Dynamically create, validate, and map Data Transfer Objects to foreign data formats.
• CLI - An extensible command line tool that allows expansion via command registration.

Level 3: Architecture

• MVC - A lightweight MVC framework.
• Jobs - Job scheduler and background queue worker.
• Scaffolding - Code generators for controllers, jobs, events, and more..

Level 4: Application

• CMS - A lightweight, powerful CMS framework derived from MVC to simplify the creation websites.

Example Usages

• Create a RESTful API using the MVC component.
• Create a simple rest based website using the Routing component.
• Create a CLI application using the Core component.
• Create an interactive website using the CMS component