I’ve been working on a new project lately and I’m calling it WebPHP. I wanted something that operated somewhat like Tornado for Python.. but in PHP.<\/p>\n
I essentially wanted some framework that could simply be dropped onto the root of a hosted server from GoDaddy or the like, and a developer could immediately map URLs using a regex-like syntax to handler classes. I found some other frameworks to do this, but a lot of them seemed tightly coupled to a front-end framework not to mention complicated to install or maintain. Hence my creation of WebPHP. WebPHP works by mapping a URL with regex style syntax like<\/p>\n
\t\/api\/users\/(.+)\/?\t\t\tMaps to http:\/\/example.com\/api\/users\/{anything}\r\n\r\n\t\/api\/users\/jacobcalvert\/profile\/?\tWould get my profile in this example service\r\n<\/pre>\nto some handler class that would do something with the request. The way this map is defined is shown below:<\/code><\/p>\n\tnew webphp\\UrlMap(\"\/(.+)\/?\", array(\"the_variable\"),'ExampleHandler', array())\r\n<\/pre>\nWebPHP would populate a variable called “the_variable” and instantiate an object of type ExampleHandler. ExampleHandler must be a derived class of the base WebRequest class defined by WebPHP. ExampleHandler could look like:<\/p>\n
class ExampleHandler extends webphp\\WebRequest\r\n{\r\n \/*\r\n * example handler for webphp\r\n *\/\r\n public function get()\r\n {\r\n $this->add_header(\"Content-Type\", \"application\/json\");\r\n $this->write(json_encode($this->params, JSON_UNESCAPED_SLASHES)); \r\n }\r\n \r\n public function post()\r\n {\r\n $this->add_header(\"Content-Type\", \"application\/json\");\r\n $this->set_response_code(201); \/\/ 201 is the \"CREATED\" response -- could be used for REST impl's\r\n $this->write(json_encode($this->params, JSON_UNESCAPED_SLASHES)); \r\n }\r\n \r\n public function put()\r\n {\r\n $this->add_header(\"Content-Type\", \"application\/json\");\r\n $this->write(json_encode($this->params, JSON_UNESCAPED_SLASHES)); \r\n }\r\n \r\n public function delete()\r\n {\r\n $this->set_response_code(403);\r\n $this->write(NULL); \r\n }\r\n \r\n public function head()\r\n {\r\n \/\/ just an example of adding a custom header\r\n \/\/ the HEAD verb expects just the headers back about \r\n \/\/ the requested document\r\n \/\/ or in other words, HEAD wants a GET response without the body\r\n $this->add_header(\"Custom-Header\", \"custom-value\");\r\n $this->write(NULL);\r\n }\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\n