About

Sonic Framework is a blazing fast PHP 5 MVC framework.

Version

1.1 beta

System Requirements

PHP 5.3+

Recommended Server Requirements

MySQL 5, Memcached

Recommended PHP Extensions

Memcache, APC, PDO

Simple Installation

wget http://sonicframework.com/sonic.tar.gz
mkdir sonic && tar xzvf sonic.tar.gz -C sonic && cd sonic
./install /path/to/install/to AppName

Follow instructions in /path/to/install/to/SETUP file

Advanced Installation

1. Download latest source from: [http://www.sonicframework.com/sonic.tar.gz]

2. Create a directory somewhere where you want the application to live

3. Within that directory add the sonic library from step 1 and some other directories and files that the app will need.

   You want your application structure to look like this:

   [] = directory
   • = file
   
   [] application_name
       [] configs
           • app.ini
           • routes.php
       [] controllers
           • main.php
       [] libs
           [] Sonic (downloaded in step 1)
           [] MyApp
       [] public_html
           • .htaccess
           [] assets
               [] css
               [] img
               [] js
           • index.php
       [] views
           [] main
               • index.phtml
               • error.phtml
   

4. In /public_html/.htaccess add the following:

   SetEnv ENVIRONMENT development
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteRule ^.htaccess$ - [F,L]
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule \.*$ /index.php

5. In /public_html/index.php add the following:

   <?php
   // make sure to set the timezone if it is not already set in your php.ini
   // date_default_timezone_set('UTC');
   
   $base_path = str_replace(DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'public_html', '', __DIR__);
   require $base_path . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'libs' . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'Sonic' . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . 'Core.php';
   $app = Sonic\App::getInstance();
   $app->setBasePath($base_path);
   
   // if you would like to use an app delegate uncomment this line
   // $app->setDelegate('{MyApp}\App\Delegate');
   
   $app->start();

6. Setup an apache vhost to point to your /public_html directory with DirectoryIndex set to index.php and add the server name to your /etc/hosts.

7. That's all there is to it, but your app won't work until you add some controllers and views. For more tutorials visit: http://www.sonicframework.com/tutorials