Making my framework a Composer framework

Shaun Bebbington — Tue, 12 Jun 2018 09:22:55 +0000

Over the past two years or so, I've been developing a PHP 7 framework, firstly as a teaching tool and then used for commercial projects. A colleague of mine told me that I could add it to Composer, which I hardly ever use because I find where I have worked on projects that use Composer, those projects have tended to have Composer packages installed that are not used anywhere. It has also made them bloated and more heavy-weight that they ought to be. Many of those Composer packages I could easily build myself fairly easily, and in doing so I have control of the source and quality of the scripts. And finally I learn more by working things out for myself.

Anyway, aside from this, Composer would give my framework more exposure. So how do I go about adding it to Composer?

My framework is currently available at

https://github.com/sbebbers/FrameWork.php/releases

sbebbers / FrameWork.php

A simple OO PHP Framework built as a learning tool but stable enough to be used on a live product.

FrameWork.php

Developed by Shaun Bebbington and Linden Bryon

Special thanks to Aaron Zvimba for his help, advice and support

FrameWork.php started out life as a simple and quite messy OO MVC framework in order to mentor a junior PHP developer whilst I was working at Rushcliff Ltd in Burton-Upon-Trent, Staffordshire. The idea was to link a controller to each page, and have a model per controller, so that the controller class would act as a middle-man between the front-end view and the database as necessary.

I also thought it necessary to allow numerous file extensions on the page uri alias, so for instance, in the skeleton provided, one might use any of the following:

The idea was to obscure that it was a PHP framework, and to send the page URLs with the .aspx file extension to our pen testers. I don't know if this…

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Many thanks in advance.