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Learn how to create a new Inphinit project.

Introduction

Inphinit is a minimalist framework with incredible performance, focused mainly on encouraging the use of native PHP functions, the goal is to not need to reinvent the wheel, unlike others. Read more in About Inphinit.

System requirements

PHP 8 (minimum 5.4, but it is recommended that you use PHP 8)
Multibyte String (GD also) (optional, only used in Inphinit\Utility\Strings class)
iconv (optional, only used in Inphinit\Utility\Strings class)
fileinfo (optional, only used in Inphinit\Filesystem\File)
COM or cURL (optional, only used in Inphinit\Filesystem\Size(Size::COM) and Inphinit\Filesystem\Size(Size::CURL))
Composer or Git (optional, see download options)

Install using Composer

If you use composer, run the command (more details in https://getcomposer.org/doc/03-cli.md):

php composer.phar create-project --prefer-dist inphinit/inphinit:^2.1 application
cd application

If you use composer global, run the command:

composer create-project --prefer-dist inphinit/inphinit:^2.1 application
cd application

Install using Git

If you use Git, for install run this command:

git clone --recurse-submodules -b v2.1.0 https://github.com/inphinit/inphinit.git application
cd application

Download

As an alternative to Composer and Git, you can download the zip, then extract it on your machine. Downloadable formats:

See example for download using terminal

wget "https://foo/inphinit-v2.1.0.tar.gz"
tar -xf inphinit-v2.1.0.tar.gz
cd application

Start a development server

Ater install you can start project using built-in web server

php -S localhost:5000 -t public index.php

Then open http://localhost:5000/ in your web browser.

For unix-like there is the shortcut ./server, you can configure it following the instructions in server file and for Windows you can use server.bat, you can configure it following the instructions in server.bat file.

Create routes

To create a new route, edit the system/main.php file, if you want the route to only be available in development mode, then edit the system/dev.php file.

The route system supports controllers, callables and anonymous functions, examples:

<?php

// anonymous functions
$app->action('GET', '/closure', function () {
    return 'Hello "closure"!';
});

function foobar() {
    return 'Hello "function"!';
}

// callable function
$app->action('GET', '/function', 'foobar');

// callable class static method (Note: autoload will include the file)
$app->action('GET', '/class-static-method', ['MyNameSpace\Foo\Bar', 'hello']);

// callable class method
$instance = new Sample();
$app->action('GET', '/class-method', [$instance, 'hello']);

// do not add the Controller prefix, the framework itself will add
$app->action('GET', '/controller', 'Boo\Bar::xyz');

Web Servers

Here are basic instructions to configure Inphinit on servers: