README.md

PHPChristmasMiracle

This application was created to accompany a presentation at CodeWorks.

The purpose is two-fold:

1. To highlight how similar frameworks are and how they can be used interchangeably

2. To show how an app evolves from a flat PHP app into a reponsibly-organized mini framework

Stages

This project is organized into six different stages, each representing one stage of the evolution of the app. You can checkout to different stages to see how things looked:

• start - A flat, PHP4-style application

    git checkout -b start origin/start
  

• stage2 - Introduction of autoloader and Request and Response classes

    git checkout -b stage2-http-foundation origin/stage2-http-foundation
  

• stage3 - Introduction of a router

    git checkout -b stage3-routing origin/stage3-routing
  

• stage4 - Introduction of a dependency injection container

    git checkout -b stage4-container origin/stage4-container
  

• stage5 - Introduction of ZF2 logger

    git checkout -b stage5-zf2-logger origin/stage5-zf2-logger
  

• stage6 - Reorganization of the project's structure

    git checkout -b stage6-dir-structure origin/stage6-dir-structure
  

Usage

To use the app, clone it, check out to whichever branch you want, and do the following:

• Clone the repository

  git clone git://github.com/weaverryan/PHPChristmasMiracle.git

• Initialize the database via php data/setupDb.php

• Pull down the submodules:

  git submodule init git submodule update

If you have any permissions problems, run the following:

chmod 777 data/database.sqlite
chmod 777 data/web.log

Enjoy!