A light-weight and fast MVC framework for php developers. This is build with a system similar to Laravel and for people who require light-weight framework than Laravel can easily adapt to this as well.

We have a well documented documentation to get started with the framework, making it a breeze to get started with the framework.

Content :

1. Instalation
2. Routes
3. Controllers
4. Special Functions
5. Requests
6. Database Queries
7. Migrations
8. Error Handling

Instalation

Using composer,

composer create-project krag/karch example-app

Using the git repository url download the framework from github or run the following code on the terminal, opened in your folder.

git clone https://github.com/Kenura-R-Gunarathna/KARCH-Framework.git

Routes

Class for the routes are included inside the routes folder as web.php.

use

use App\Route;

to include the route class.

Route::post('/login', Controller::class, 'login');

Route::post('/function', function () {
    echo "The anonymous callback function has been executed.";
});

Controllers

Class for the controllers are included inside the routes folder as controller.php.

use

use App\Controller;

to include the controller class.

public static function login()
{
    // code...
}

Special Functions

Views

To view a html or php file. All the view file locations are given relative to the Views folder.

eg:- /index.html or index.html ( for a file as index.html inside the views folder )

view("{view-location}");

Redirects

To redirect a web page insert

redirect("{full-url}");

here you should insert the full url of the web page.

Assets

To load the assets like images, documents and videos for public view insert

asset("{relative-url-from-public-folder}");

here you should insert the relative url of the files inside the public folder skiping ../public/ part of the relative url.

Route

Return the url of a specific route in the website.

route("{route-name-or-uri}");

Request

Return the $_REQUEST values of the website.

request("{request-name}");

Config

Return the $_ENV values of the website inside the .env file.

config("{config-name}");

Get

Return the $_GET request values of the website.

get("{get-request-name}");

Post

Return the $_POST request values of the website.

post("{post-request-name}");

Cookie

Return the $_COOKIE values of the website.

cookie("{cookie-name}");

Files

Return the $_FILES values of the website.

files("{file-name}");

Session

Return the $_SESSION values of the website stored in the web server.

session("{session-name}");

Requests

Class for the requests are included inside the includes folder as data_handling.php.

use

use App\DataHandling;

to include the requests class.

$data = new DataHandling();

env data

echo $data->env->APP_NAME;

get, post and session requests

echo $data->request->username;
echo $data->request->password;

get request

echo $data->get->username;
echo $data->get->password;

post request

echo $data->post->username;
echo $data->post->password;

Database Queries

Class for the db queries are included inside the includes folder as database.php.

use

use App\DB;

to include the database class.

Records selection

$data = DB::table("users")->query("where id='1'")->setFetchMode(PDO::FETCH_OBJ)->get();

foreach ($data as $col) {
    echo "Name : " . $col->name . "<br>";
    echo "Age : " . $col->age . "<br>";
    echo "Email : " . $col->email . "<br>";
}

Mass records insert

$data = DB::table("users")->insert([
    ['name' => 'lisara', 'age' => 24, 'email' => 'lisara@gmail.com', 'updated_at' => date('Y-m-d H:i:s'), 'created_at' => date('Y-m-d H:i:s')],
    ['name' => 'sanuli', 'age' => 14, 'email' => 'sanuli@gmail.com', 'updated_at' => date('Y-m-d H:i:s'), 'created_at' => date('Y-m-d H:i:s')],
]);

return print($data); // whether insertion is successfull or not

Single record insert

$data = DB::table("users")->setTableId("id")->setFetchMode(PDO::FETCH_OBJ)->create(
    [
        'name' => 'lisara',
        'age' => 24,
        'email' => 'lisara@gmail.com'
    ]
);

foreach ($data as $col) {
    echo "Name : " . $col->name . "<br>";
    echo "Age : " . $col->age . "<br>";
    echo "Email : " . $col->email . "<br>";
}

Update records

$data = DB::table("users")->query("where id='1'")->update(
    [
        'name' => 'Kenura',
        'age' => 19,
        'email' => 'kenura@gmail.com'
    ]
);

return print($data); // count of updated records

Delete records

$data = DB::table("users")->query("where id='16'")->delete();

return print($data); // whether delete is successfull or not

Migrations

All the migrations required to create tables are in the database/migrations folder, each with their respective table name.

<?php

require_once __DIR__ . '/../../includes/error_handling.php';
require_once __DIR__ . '/../../includes/database.php';
require_once __DIR__ . '/../../includes/data_handling.php';

use App\DB;
use App\DataHandling;

$table_name = "users";

try {
    $users = DB::table($table_name)->migrate([
        "id INT(6) UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY",
        "username VARCHAR(256) NOT NULL",
        "password VARCHAR(256) NOT NULL",
    ]);

    if ($users) {
        return print("$table_name migration completed successfully!");
    }
} catch (\Throwable $th) {
    return print("migration error : " . $th->getMessage());
}

to run a migration such as below run the code

php databse\migrations\{migration-filename}.php

Error Handling

Class for the error handling are included inside the includes folder as error_handling.php.

use

use App\ErrorHandling;

to include the ErrorHandling class.

view the 404 error

ErrorHandling::_404();

for custom 404 error message

ErrorHandling::_404({error-message});

view the 405 error

ErrorHandling::_405();

for custom 405 error message

ErrorHandling::_405({error-message});

view the 500 error

ErrorHandling::_500();

for custom 500 error message

ErrorHandling::_500({error-message});