PHP Skeleton Project - Skelly

Tired of setting up small sites that need user login? Want a easy to use PHP Project Bootstrap with a pre-installed Admin Template for a UI? Well look no further. https://github.com/geggleto/skelly (Bam!).

Visuals

Let's take a look at what it looks like.

Technologies

A quick look in the composer.json shows all the things you will likely need for your project.

{
    //...
    "require": {
        "slim/slim": "^3.8",
        "slim/twig-view": "^2.3",
        "php-di/slim-bridge": "^1.0",
        "doctrine/orm": "^2.5",
        "vlucas/phpdotenv": "^2.4",
        "ramsey/uuid-doctrine": "^1.4",
        "mailgun/mailgun-php": "^2.3",
        "php-http/curl-client": "^1.7",
        "guzzlehttp/psr7": "^1.4",
        "paragonie/random_compat": "^2.0"
    }
    //...
}

Overview

On the surface, this skeleton includes Slim v3 with TWIG and PHP-DI. Slim 3 is a super light-weight micro service framework. Twig is an amazing templatationg library. PHP-DI is a suberb container that supports auto-wiring.

For persistence this package uses Doctrine's ORM with Annotations. Doctrine supports a variety of configurations including XML and YAML.

For Email this package uses Mailgun. I recommend mailgun to everyone as it's cheap and reliable (first 10,000 emails are free which is enough for almost everyone).

For Configuration I have chosen to use phpdotenv. I love this package as it's super simple to use even in production (he doesn't recommend it, and I mostly agree however when you have a choice of either spending more time on Dev-Ops or coding; I choose coding 100% of the time).

Giver a Try

Installation

php composer.phar create-project geggleto/skelly [my-app-name]

Configuration

1. Copy config/.env.sample to config/.env and fill in the details
2. Use composer db to sync the database schema
3. Create your users, php cli/newUser.php <email> <password> <firstName> <lastName>
4. Login and Build!