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MINI is an extremely simple and easy to understand skeleton PHP application, reduced to the max.
MINI is NOT a professional framework and it does not come with all the stuff real frameworks have.
If you just want to show some pages, do a few database calls and a little-bit of AJAX here and there, without
reading in massive documentations of highly complex professional frameworks, then MINI might be very useful for you.
MINI is easy to install, runs nearly everywhere and doesn't make things more complicated than necessary.
uses PDO for any database requests, comes with an additional PDO debug tool to emulate your SQL statements
commented code
uses only native PHP code, so people don't have to learn a framework
Support the project
Forks of MINI
TINY
MINI has a smaller brother, named TINY. It's similar to MINI, but runs without
mod_rewrite in nearly every environment. Not suitable for live sites, but nice for quick prototyping.
MINI2
MINI also has a bigger brother, named MINI2. It's even simpler, has been built
using Slim and has nice features like SASS-compiling, Twig etc.
MINI3
MINI3 it the successor of MINI,
using the original MINI1 native application structure (without Slim
under the hood), but with proper PSR-4 autoloading, multiple model
classes and real namespaces.
Requirements
PHP 5.3.0+ (when first released), now it works fine with current stable versions PHP 5.6 and 7.0
MySQL
mod_rewrite activated (tutorials below, but there's also TINY, a mod_rewrite-less
version of MINI)
Installation (in Vagrant, 100% automatic)
If you are using Vagrant for your development, then you can install MINI with one click (or one command on the
command line) [Vagrant doc]. MINI comes with a demo
Vagrant-file (defines your Vagrant box) and a demo bootstrap.sh which automatically installs Apache, PHP, MySQL,
PHPMyAdmin, git and Composer, sets a chosen password in MySQL and PHPMyadmin and even inside the application code,
downloads the Composer-dependencies, activates mod_rewrite and edits the Apache settings, downloads the code from GitHub
and runs the demo SQL statements (for demo data). This is 100% automatic, you'll end up after +/- 5 minutes with a fully
running installation of MINI2 inside an Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Vagrant box.
To do so, put Vagrantfile and bootstrap.sh from _vagrant inside a folder (and nothing else).
Do vagrant box add ubuntu/trusty64 to add Ubuntu 14.04 LTS ("Trusty Thar") 64bit to Vagrant (unless you already have
it), then do vagrant up to run the box. When installation is finished you can directly use the fully installed demo
app on 192.168.33.44. As this just a quick demo environment the MySQL root password and the PHPMyAdmin root password
are set to 12345678, the project is installed in /var/www/html/myproject. You can change this for sure inside
bootstrap.sh.
Auto-Installation on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (in 30 seconds)
You can install MINI including Apache, MySQL, PHP and PHPMyAdmin, mod_rewrite, Composer, all necessary settings and
even the passwords inside the configs file by simply downloading one file and executing it, the entire installation
will run 100% automatically. Find the tutorial in this blog article:
Install MINI in 30 seconds inside Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Installation
Edit the database credentials in application/config/config.php
Execute the .sql statements in the _install/-folder (with PHPMyAdmin for example).
A deeper discussion on nginx setups can be found here.
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Security
The script makes use of mod_rewrite and blocks all access to everything outside the /public folder.
Your .git folder/files, operating system temp files, the application-folder and everything else is not accessible
(when set up correctly). For database requests PDO is used, so no need to think about SQL injection (unless you
are using extremely outdated MySQL versions).
Goodies
MINI comes with a little customized PDO debugger tool (find the code in
application/libs/helper.php), trying to emulate your PDO-SQL statements. It's extremely easy to use:
$sql = "SELECT id, artist, track, link FROM song WHERE id = :song_id LIMIT 1";
$query = $this->db->prepare($sql);
$parameters = array(':song_id' => $song_id);
echoHelper::debugPDO($sql, $parameters);
$query->execute($parameters);
Why has the "Error" class been renamed to "Problem"?
The project was written in PHP5 times, but with the release of PHP7 it's not possible anymore to name a class
"Error" as PHP itself has a internal Error class now. Renaming was the most simple solution, compared to other
options like "ErrorController" etc. which would add new problems like uppercase filenames etc. (which will not
work properly on some setups).
License
This project is licensed under the MIT License.
This means you can use and modify it for free in private or commercial projects.
The application's URL-path translates directly to the controllers (=files) and their methods inside
application/controllers.
example.com/home/exampleOne will do what the exampleOne() method in application/controllers/home.php says.
example.com/home will do what the index() method in application/controllers/home.php says.
example.com will do what the index() method in application/controllers/home.php says (default fallback).
example.com/songs will do what the index() method in application/controllers/songs.php says.
example.com/songs/editsong/17 will do what the editsong() method in application/controllers/songs.php says and
will pass 17 as a parameter to it.
Self-explaining, right ?
Showing a view
Let's look at the exampleOne()-method in the home-controller (application/controllers/home.php): This simply shows
the header, footer and the example_one.php page (in views/home/). By intention as simple and native as possible.
Let's look into the index()-method in the songs-controller (application/controllers/songs.php): Similar to exampleOne,
but here we also request data. Again, everything is extremely reduced and simple: $this->model->getAllSongs() simply
calls the getAllSongs()-method in application/model/model.php.
publicfunctionindex()
{
// getting all songs and amount of songs$songs = $this->model->getAllSongs();
$amount_of_songs = $this->model->getAmountOfSongs();
// load view. within the view files we can echo out $songs and $amount_of_songs easilyrequireAPP . 'views/_templates/header.php';
requireAPP . 'views/songs/index.php';
requireAPP . 'views/_templates/footer.php';
}
For extreme simplicity, all data-handling methods are in application/model/model.php. This is for sure not really
professional, but the most simple implementation. Have a look how getAllSongs() in model.php looks like: Pure and
super-simple PDO.
publicfunctiongetAllSongs()
{
$sql = "SELECT id, artist, track, link FROM song";
$query = $this->db->prepare($sql);
$query->execute();
return$query->fetchAll();
}
The result, here $songs, can then easily be used directly
inside the view files (in this case application/views/songs/index.php, in a simplified example):
MINI is the successor of php-mvc. As php-mvc didn't provide a real MVC structure (and several people complained
about that - which is totally right!) I've renamed and rebuild the project.
Dear haters, trolls and everything-sucks-people...
... MINI is just a simple helper-tool I've created for my daily work, simply because it was much easier to setup and to
handle than real frameworks. For daily agency work, quick prototyping and frontend-driven projects it's totally okay,
does the job and there's absolutely no reason to discuss why it's "shit compared to Laravel", why it does not follow
several MVC principles or why there's no personal unpaid support or no russian translation or similar weird stuff.
The trolling against Open-Source-projects (and their authors) has really reached insane dimensions.
I've written this unpaid, voluntarily, in my free-time and uploaded it on GitHub to share.
It's totally free, for private and commercial use. If you don't like it, don't use it.
If you see issues, then please write a ticket (and if you are really cool: I'm very thankful for any commits!).
But don't bash, don't complain, don't hate. Only bad people do so.
Contribute
Please commit into the develop branch (which holds the in-development version), not into master branch
(which holds the tested and stable version).
Changelog
August 2016
[codebicycle/panique] renamed Error class to Problem to make it PHP7 compatible #209
[ynohtna92/panique] URL protocol is now protocol-independent #208
February 2015
[jeroenseegers] nginx setup configuration
December 2014
[panique] css fixes
[panique] renamed controller / view to singular
[panique] added charset to PDO creation (increased security)
November 2014
[panique] auto-install script for Vagrant
[panique] basic documentation
[panique] PDO-debugger is now a static helper-method, not a global function anymore
[panique] folder renaming
[reg4in] JS AJAX calls runs now properly even when using script in sub-folder
[panique] removed all "models", using one model file now
[panique] full project renaming, re-branding
October 2014
[tarcnux/panique] PDO debugging
[panique] demo ajax call
[panique] better output escaping
[panique] renamed /libs to /core
[tarcnux] basic CRUD (create/read/update/delete) examples have now an U (update)
[panique] URL is now config-free, application detects URL and sub-folder
[elysdir] htaccess has some good explanation-comments now
[bst27] fallback for non-existing controller / method
[panique] fallback will show error-page now
[digitaltoast] URL split fix to make php-mvc work flawlessly on nginx
[AD7six] security improvement: moved index.php to /public, route ALL request to /public
September 2014
[panique] added link to support forum
[panique] added link to Facebook page
August 2014
[panique] several changes in the README, donate-button changes
June 2014
[digitaltoast] removed X-UA-Compatible meta tag from header (as it's not needed anymore these days)
[digitaltoast] removed protocol in jQuery URL (modern way to load external files, making it independent to protocol change)
[digitaltoast] downgraded jQuery from 2.1 to 1.11 to avoid problems when working with IE7/8 (jQuery 2 dropped IE7/8 support)
[panique] moved jQuery loading to footer (to avoid page render blocking)
April 2014
[panique] updated jQuery link to 2.1
[panique] more than 3 parameters (arguments to be concrete) are possible
[panique] cleaner way of parameter handling
[panique] smaller cleanings and improvements
[panique] Apache 2.4 install information
January 2014
[panique] fixed .htaccess issue when there's a controller named "index" and a base index.php (which collide)
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Just an extremely simple naked PHP application, useful for small projects and quick prototypes. Some might call it a micro framework :)