Slate PHP is a lightweight collection of pre-configured PHP components, classes, and packages, designed to help developers quickly set up and launch projects. With integrated Composer for dependency management and Webpack for frontend compilation, it streamlines the development process and enables faster project initiation.
Slate PHP is a lightweight PHP starter kit that provides developers with a solid foundation to quickly set up and launch their projects. It is built with a modular approach using predefined functions and classes, along with popular packages configured for Composer to manage dependencies and Bootstrap to handle frontend styling and layout. With Slate PHP, developers can focus on building their applications rather than worrying about repetitive setup tasks, making it an excellent choice for rapid prototyping or small to medium-sized projects.
Slate PHP can be installed from the GitHub repository by cloning the repository into your project root directory and running the following commands: git clone https://github.com/bright-webb/slate_php.git
composer install
npm install
Please ensure that you have Composer and npm installed and that your PHP environment is configured properly.
Slate PHP uses webpack for compilation with Bootstrap, Lodash, and jQuery as default dependencies. You can also remove these dependencies and add your preferred choice before running npm install and npm run dev to compile your frontend code, which will be compiled to assets/css/file.css. You can change the output of the compiled code in webpack.config.js.
By default, Slate PHP uses Slate as a namespace, so to autoload your classes automatically, you need to use Slate as the namespace. However, you can change this in composer.json and then run the command composer dump-autoload. You can also add your own function in the Helper folder and add it in composer.json, making sure to run composer dump-autoload. Alternatively, you can add your own custom functions.
Composer searches for classes in the src folder, so your classes need to be in the src folder, but you can change this in composer.json.
To use Slate PHP, you need to navigate to your server root directory, htdocs, or www, as it does not come with its own server. Once you have installed Slate PHP, you can start building your application by adding your code to the src folder and your frontend assets to the assets folder. You can also add your own functions to the Helper folder.
Slate PHP provides a useful collection of files for developing web applications in PHP.
helpers.php: a file containing predefined functions that can be used to avoid repetitive tasks or to add your own functions.
App.php: a class that provides methods that can be used throughout the entire project. These methods include connecting to the database, querying the database, and other useful methods.
Auth.php: a class that provides methods for authenticating and authorizing users. It acts as a middleware.
Connection.php: a class for database connection.
Exception.php: a class for error handling and custom error handlers.
Str.php: a class containing methods for string manipulation.
htdocs, or www.composer.json, you need to run composer dump-autoload.Helper folder, you need to add them to composer.json and run composer dump-autoload.autoload section in composer.json.helpers.php file contains a collection of helper functions that can be used across your PHP projects. Here are the functions available in this file:
slugify($string)
Converts a string into a URL friendly slug.
$string (string) - The string to be converted into slug format.
Returns a string in slug format.
echo slugify("This is a test string"); // Output: "this-is-a-test-string"