Fastred

Procedural micro-framework for PHP server and JavaScript frontend.

The general purpose is to provide:

• Easy-to-use overridable global functions and constants.
• Appropriate functions available both at server and client side.
• Clear naming convention.
• JSON-like variable types.
• Guideline to organize modules in your project.

Important notice

Fastred keeps programming as short and simple as possible and tries to exclude overhead from complex programming constructions, like classes and namespaces. All functions are global.

This is not always what you may need.

If you make something big and scalable with pretty large team you'd better use some other framework. Composer cannot autoload global functions, so with Fastred you'll have to use fastredRequire() to load needed modules (see Usage).

However, Fastred can be easily combined with any other framework or coding style if you want to use it partially. It has some useful basic modules, like img, pgn or sql and can be extended with additional libraries.

Definitions

Module

File of code that contains global functions and constants and follows naming convention.

Universal module

Module that is implemented both in PHP and JavaScript in whole or in part.

PHP

Requirements

• PHP 5.3+

Installation

You can use composer, so Fastred will be included with autoload.php:

composer require dehero/fastred

Or you can extract Fastred distributive somewhere into your project's directory, then:

require 'path/to/fastred.php';

API

Fastred provides two basic functions:

fastredLibrary($path)

Add folder path to search for modules in.

fastredRequire($module1, $module2, ...)

Require modules found in all added paths.

Usage

Provide one or more directories to search modules in. Basic Fastred modules are included with fastred.php

// Add folder paths to search for modules in
fastredLibrary(__DIR__ . '/modulesA');
fastredLibrary(__DIR__ . '/modulesB');

// Require modules module1.php, module2.php, module3.php
fastredRequire($module1, $module2, ...);
fastredRequire($module3);

// Use functions and constants from modules
module1Function($arg);
module2Function($arg);
echo MODULE3_CONST;

JavaScript

Requirements

• Webpack

Installation

npm install fastred

Usage

fastredLibrary(require.context('./js'));

API

fastredLibrary(webpackContext)

fastredRequire(module1, module2, ...)

Naming convention

PHP

thisIsFunction($paramA, $paramB)

object->someProperty

$someVariable

THIS_IS_CONSTANT

JavaScript

thisIsFunction(paramA, paramB)

obj.someProperty

someVariable

THIS_IS_CONSTANT

• Function names should always be written in camelcase. Names of functions start with module ident, like img*, url* or pageData*.
• Main function of the module is named by module ident itself, like url().
• Functions with names containing words Get, Of, like urlGetCurrent() or urlOfPage() pass main result through their return.
• Functions with names containing verb in present simple, like emailIsValid() or fileExists(), usually return boolean result.
• Functions with name containing To or From are for conversion.
• Other functions create, declare or change some existing things.

Object properties should always use camelcase code style, like $fastred->thisIsProperty. If property name is too long being written in single camelcase phrase, that's a sign that properties should be nested, like $fastred->app->page->data.

Variable types

There are two reasons why objects but not arrays are used for stroring complex data in Fastred:

1. $data->key->subkey is shorter and easier to write, than $data['key']['subkey'].

2. Objects are passed by references, so PHP doesn't need to waste time cloning object data for functions.

To check if an object has any properties it's best to use function objHasProperties($object) from obj module.

Basic modules

Module	Universal	Purpose
app		Application lifecycle, routing, error handling
arr	Yes	Arrays
cache	Yes	Caching values in memory just for current script
css
datetime	Yes	Working with date and time
dir	Yes	Directories
email		Sending email
file
img		Images
json	Yes	JSON
obj	Yes	Objects (reference-passed associative arrays)
page
path	Yes
pgn		Pagination
script
sql		Constructing SQL expressions
str	Yes	Strings
url		Constructing and parsing URLs
var	Yes	Variables of all types

Tips

Usage with Pug

Fastred can be useful with pug:

• Create .pug template using universal Fastred functions for presentation code.
• Compile template to PHP with pug-php, having expressionLanguage set to js.
• Compile template to JavaScript with pug (you can use pug-loader for webpack or other bundler).