Welcome to Kirby – a stripped down and easy to use toolkit for PHP. It's by no means a full featured mvc/wtf framework, it's more like jQuery or Mootools for PHP. Kirby is there to make nerdy things a little less nerdy.
Kirby is completely free to use as long as you put a link to my page in your code somewhere. Please read the docs to learn more about it, follow Kirby on Twitter and download the latest version to get started.
- Database Handling (MySQL)
- Loads of string and array helpers
- File and directory handling
- Session and Cookie helpers
- Browser detection
- Easy language support
- Easy request handling
- Validation
- Easy app configuration
Here are two tiny examples to give you a better idea what Kirby does
<?php
require_once('kirby.php');
// setup the database
c::set('db.host', 'localhost');
c::set('db.user', 'root');
c::set('db.password', 'password');
c::set('db.name', 'database');
// select all users from an imaginary user table
$users = db::select('users', '*');
// build a list of encoded email addresses
// with a fallback for users without an email address
foreach($users AS $user) {
echo str::email( a::get($user, 'email', 'no email') );
}
?>
<?php
require_once('kirby.php');
if(get('submit')) {
$email = get('email');
if(!v::email($email)) {
echo 'That is not a valid email address';
} else {
db::insert('newsletter', array('email' => $email));
go('/success');
}
}
?>
<form>
<input type="text" name="email" />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Subscribe" />
</form>
Kirby likes PHP 5, Apache on unix systems and MySQL. Everything else is not supported.
Please let me know if you like Kirby or you hate Kirby or whatever: [email protected]