Short PHP

Requirements

• Apache with mod_rewrite enabled.
• PHP 5.x - has only been tested with PHP 5.2.x and beyond, but should work in all versions of PHP 5 (maybe even PHP 4)
• No MySQL neccessary

Installation & configuration

The installation could not be simpler. Simply download the package, extract and copy the files to your website directory. If the website is located in a sub-folder of a domain, eg. /john/newsite/ edit the line in the .htaccess file that says RewriteBase / and change it to RewriteBase /john/newsite/ After that you are ready to go!

Setting up the template

The index.php file in the root of your website acts as the template of the website. All your HTML should be put in there. You only have two functions in the template you can call: t() and c() - t() returns the site title and c() returns the site content

Creating site files

If you want to create a page/link you just make a new php document in the /site/ folder. For instance: /site/mypage.php - now if you navigate to your website and type in www.example.com/mypage/ you should see it's output.

The default page is /site/index.php - so that should be your home page

Creating site files with a class/function hierarchy

Lets say you have a site file named mypage.php (path www.example.com/mypage/) - you create a class named mypage and a function method in it named dostuff() for instance:

class mypage {
	function dostuff () {
		echo 'This is where you do stuff';
	}
}

Now you can call www.example.com/mypage/dostuff/ and that function will be executed. If none is is specified or you type in a name of a function that does not exist, you get the default function which is index() - if index() is not specified and/or the class mypage - nothing gets called, so the document becomes a flat php document.

Functions

If you want to create a page/link you just make a new php document in the /site/ folder.