Welcome to Blackbird

Blackbird is a lightweight PHP MVC framework, origionally created with inspiration from Ruby on Rails back in 2006.

Requirements

• As this framework is very slim and no guides is provided, its expected that you have decent knowledge of PHP.
• PHP 5.3
• MySQL (You can switch to another database if you want to)

Getting started

In either your Apache virtual-host or in your .htaccess file, specify which environment to run:

<VirtualHost *:80>

    ServerName blackbird
    DocumentRoot /path-to-blackbird/public

    SetEnv ENVIRONMENT development

    <Directory />
            Order allow,deny
            AllowOverride All
            Allow from all
    </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

Conventions

Blackbird expects a strict relationship between your controllers and your views. This is done to make it easier to setup new controllers and actions, rather than worrying about configuring it.

• A controller is declared with uppercase-first as such: WelcomeController
• An action is defined within the controller as a public mehtod with the name of the action.
• A view file is created in the folder /app/views/[controller]/[action].[format].php - /app/views/welcome/index.html.php

Example welcome controller

<?php

class WelcomeController extends ApplicationController {

    public function index() {
      
    }

}

?>