Wolff

Web development made just right.

Wolff is a ridiculously small and lightweight PHP framework, intended for those who want to build web applications without starting from scratch or dealing with complexity.

Wolff is the perfect solution for building small and medium-sized web applications.

Note: The core code of the framework is available at Wolff-framework.

Features

📓 Extremely easy: It's simple to use and no initial setup is required, it comes ready to be deployed, giving you the opportunity to learn it in just a single night (sleep included).

🚀 Ridiculously fast: Only the resources you need are loaded, the framework is able to handle hundreds of requests per second. It's very friendly with potato servers and works seamlessly.

🛠️ Comprenhensive: Wolff has features that cover everything you may ever need for building a web app, from a handy database abstraction to a powerful template engine.

What's included

• Database abstraction layer

• DI Container

• Language manager

• Routing system

• Standard library

• Template engine

And much more...

Requirements

• PHP version 7.0 or higher

• Composer

Install

Composer is required for installing Wolff, once you got it...

Run the following command in the folder where you want Wolff to be installed:

composer create-project usbac/wolff

This will download the whole project with everything ready to run.

More info about the installation process in the Docs - install page.

You can also download the last bundle here.

Example

app/controllers/home.php:

‹?php

namespace Controller;

use Wolff\Core\{Language, View};

class Home
{
    public function index($req, $res)
    {
        $data = Language::get('home');    
        View::render('home', $data);
    }
}

Testing

PHPUnit is required for the tests, once you got it.

Run the following command with high privileges (sudo) in your wolff project folder:

vendor/bin/phpunit

Running the command with high privileges is required since some files will be created during the testing process.

Documentation

First time using it? Read the Documentation.

Contributing

Any contribution or support to this project in the form of a pull request or message will be highly appreciated. ❤️

You can read more about the contribution process right here. Don't be shy. :)

License

Wolff is open-source software licensed under the MIT license.