tarwich / jackal

A lightweight php framework inspired by CodeIgniter

Jackal

Jackal is a lightweight PHP framework that attmpts to load on demand only the things necessary to complete the task at hand. Currently still under major development due to issues that prevent easy adoption.

Philosophy

Lightweight

Many very good frameworks for PHP load everything necessary to do anything you want to do whether or not you want to do those things. This framework requires you to invoke other classes via Jackal, allowing Jackal to load required classes on-demand. This makes 90% of your pages load only themselves, since that's all they need anyway.

You call other modules like this:

Jackal::call("OtherClass/method");

Fast

Jackal doesn't attmept to wrap things that PHP already does.

Just as one example: Many frameworks, enumerate files in a directory or directories to search for the desired file. However, glob() is an internal function already supported by PHP which will return optimal results faster.

Existing frameworks might

$results = array();

foreach(scandir("/foo") as $file) 
  if(substr($file, 0, 5) == "class") 
  	if(substr($file, -4) == ".") 
			$results[] = $file;

Jackal does this:

$results = glob("/foo/class*.php");

TODO:

Add information about how to add Jackal as a submodule to other git repositories.

jackal's Issues

Scope is invalid in __construct

When Jackal calls a Module method, it pushes that Module onto to scope stack, but when Jackal first initializes a Module, thus calling __construct, it doesn't modify the scope, so it will be wrong during __construct.

MIME types

The array of supported MIME types is currently stored in JackalModule.php, forcing me to update JackalModule.php every time I need to add a new MIME type. It's impractical to include every MIME type for every known file type in JackalModule, so it would be ideal if it were a config setting that could be placed into "private/config/jackal.yaml" somehow. That is all!