Cohesion PHP Framework

The primary objective of this framework is to provide a simple framework to help developers create good clean PHP code. It forces developers to write code that follows many common software development principles.

Cohesion is more than just a Framework, it’s a development guideline that tries to enforce best practices to improve maintainability.

Contents

• Introduction
  • Origins
  • Philosophy
• Installation
  • Requirements
  • Installing Composer
  • Installing Nginx
  • Installing Cohesion with Composer
  • Setting up Nginx server
• Quickstart
  • Frontend
  • Backend / Services
• Code Structure
  • Services - Business Logic
  • Data Transfer Objects (DTOs) - Object Data
  • Data Access Objects (DAOs) - Data Access Logic
  • Controllers
  • Views
• Configuration
  • File Structure
  • Environment specific configurations
  • Configuration Options
• Dependency Injection
  • Dependency Injection simplified
  • How Cohesion performs Dependency Injection
• Routing
  • Route matching
  • Redirects
• Templating
  • Additional functionalities
• Error Handling
  • Exceptions
  • Error Output
• Utility Classes
  • Database Interaction
  • Configuration Library
  • Input Handler
• Examples
• Contributing
  • Licence
  • Code

Code

Cohesion on GitHub