The Werx Project for PHP

Overview

Werx is a micro-framework for PHP 5.4+. It brings together the building blocks you need to build a PHP application without all the overhead and learning curve associated with the big PHP frameworks.

Features

I’ve combined some of the best composer packages I could find to provide most of the core functionality:

Database Abstraction (Illuminate/Database)
HTTP Abstraction (Symfony\HttpFoundation)
Routing (Aura.Router)
Templating (Plates)
Unit Tests (PHPUnit of course, why use anything else?)

In addition to the above third party packages, I’ve also released a few component packages myself. As much as I wanted to strictly use third party components, I’ve found instances where it made more sense to release my own reusable packages.

Configuration Management
- Multiple Environment Support (local, test, prod, etc)
- Extensible configuration providers (array and json supported out of the box)
Email Abstraction
- Use CodeIgniter’s email library outside CodeIgniter.
Forms
- Framework agnostic form helpers.
Messages
- Display various types of messages in a web app.
Url Builder
- Uses rize\UriTemplate for the heavy lifting of expanding urls with additional functionality to make it easier to build action and asset urls to resources within your application.
Validation
- Provides set of standard validation methods and an input validation engine.