Flight Skeleton

This skeleton provides a quick start for the development of an application with the Flight PHP microframework. The goal here is to get going as fast as possible.

It also adds support for Sass, Twig, and even TypeScript (it also includes Volta for npm version managing)!

Downloading the skeleton

First, check that you have installed and configured a web server (such as Nginx) with PHP 8 or higher.

You can either use this template on github, or use git to clone this repo:

$ git clone https://github.com/markhughes/flight-skeleton.git my-app-name

Creating the application

If you want to define global constants or other settings, you can use the config.php in app/config/.

Routing

To define your routes, use the file app/config/routes.php:

<?php

Flight::route("/", ["\Acme\Demo\Controller\Demo", "index"]);

An example API router has been created in src/Acme/Demo/Controller/API.php where Flight::json is used to send the response back.

Controllers

Place your code in the src folder. All classes from here are autoloaded by their namespace. For an example, have a look in the demo code in src/Acme/demo/Controller/Demo.php. As you can see, the controller uses the namespace Acme\Demo\Controller.

Templates

Twig templates are loaded by default from app/resouces/views/. You can change this by editing the path in app/config/config.php.

Logging

Your application logs into var/logs. Should you want to, you can add more loggers in app/config/logger_handlers.php, or completely reconfigure it in app/logger.php.

You can then at any time log messages, for example:

$logger->info('hello world!');

Webpack

Compile your scripts using npm run build which will throw it all together in public/dist/main.js - check the webpack docs on how to use it more effectively. Your entrypoint is located in app/resources/scripts/index.ts if you don't want to use TypeScript just rename index.ts to index.js.

You can also run npm run dev to start webpack in watch mode, great for development.

Volta

This project uses Volta to manage the node and npm version, it is optional to setup but it is a great tool to manage your JavaScript toolchain.

License

The skeleton is licensed under the MIT license.