README

https://silla.io by Athlon

Reference

• Code API Reference: https://api.silla.io
• Demo of the CMS app: https://demo.silla.io/cms/
  • Credentials
    • email: demo@silla.io
    • password: DemoDemo1!

Overview

Silla.IO is a lightweight PHP application development framework based on the MVC software architecture pattern. The framework includes CMS Application to provide assistance building custom content management systems.

The code base features Model-View-Controller pattern with additional support for:

• Configuration Per Environment
• ORM layer for persistent data management
• Template rendering engine support for output management
• URL Routing
• Base\Entity for consolidation of CRUD operations
• Mailer API
• Cache API
• Session API
• Crypt API
• i18n
• CLI task manager
• ... any many more

Server Software Requirements

• Operating System
  • Type: *nix, Windows
• Web Server
  • Type: Apache, nginx or compatible(PHP built-in web server)
  • Modules: (below are Apache module names. Each of them has equivalent for nginx)
    • mod_rewrite - in order to have custom(pretty) URLs
    • mod_env - in order to easily switch configuration environments
• PHP
  • Type: Standard (SAPI - Apache Handler or CLI/CGI/FCGI)
  • Version: 5.3.7 (or newer, compatible up to 7.2.x)
  • Configuration:
    • Runtime change enabled via ini_set()
    • Extensions
      • mbstring - Provides multi-byte specific string functions that help dealing with multi-byte encodings.
      • PDO, PDO_mysql, mysqli, SQLite3 (depends on on the configured database adapter)
      • GD - in order to work with media
• Database
  • Type: MySQL (depends on on the configured database adapter)
  • Version: 5 (or newer, recommended 5.6+)
• File System
  • Type: Standard file system(all PHP file functions should work as expected)
  • Permissions: Writable directories:
    • /temp
    • /public
• Package Managers
  • Composer - PHP package manager