Donoussa

Donoussa is a minimalistic PHP MVC framework, simple and easy to use. It combines FLAT PHP code writing freedom with basic MVC features. It bears the name of the small Greek island Donoussa

It could be useful in small/medium-size projects. PHP 5.3.0 or newer is recommended. Tested with PHP 7

Copyright Christos Pontikis http://www.pontikis.net

License MIT

At a glance

• copy index.dist.php to /index.php (front controller)
• copy .htaccess.dist to /.htaccess (Apache mod_rewrite required)
• copy settings.dist.php to conf/settings.php and configure
• copy init.dist.php to conf/init.php and configure it
• add donoussa tables in a database (page_properties, page_dependencies, page_url), see sql folder. In table page_dependencies create columns for each key in array $conf['dependencies'] (example in settings.dist.php).

MVC comparison

Compare	Advanced MVC Frameworks	Donoussa
Front controller	YES Index.php is the single point of entry for all requests (using mod_rewrite)	YES Index.php or any other (using mod_rewrite)
Number of files	Many	7
Friendly URLs	YES	YES
URL structure	according standard MVC patterns, e.g. http://domain/controller/action/id	Any URL structure e.g. http://domain/any_url
Code Directory structure	Usually /models /views /controllers /config	Any directory structure (recommended /conf)
Controllers	Front controller will establish a "loader" object to “translate” the requested URL into an instance of the relevant controller class. Controllers, models and views are individual files organized in relevant folders of the same name.	Front controller will include the appropriate “model” and “view” using Dynamic Lookup Invocation from database (or memcached, json, xml etc)
Views	Views can be either stand-alone or use a template	Views are HTML files with embedded PHP
Database abstraction layer	YES	YES https://github.com/pontikis/dacapo (MySQLi, PostgreSQL)
User/Roles functionality	YES	YES https://github.com/pontikis/ithaca
AJAX CSRF protection	Usually	YES
Class Autoloading	YES	NO
Use a Registry object	YES	NO
Multilanguage support	Usually	YES (using gettext and php-intl)
Manage assets (CSS, JS)	Usually (using Composer https://getcomposer.org/)	Assets are managed internally. Minify and bundle option available (Javascript Minifier built in PHP https://github.com/tedivm/JShrink and CssMin minfier http://code.google.com/p/cssmin/). Force reload JS and CSS assets using pseudo query string.
Prevent direct URL download	?	YES
Integrated unit testing support	Usually	NO

External classes

• Dacapo (Simple PHP database wrapper) https://github.com/pontikis/dacapo
• Javascript Minifier built in PHP v1.1.0 https://github.com/tedivm/JShrink (optional)
• CssMin minfier v3.0.1 http://code.google.com/p/cssmin/ (optional)

Documentation

See docs/doxygen/html for html documentation.

See also example folder.