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The public website for LightningPHP. Created with LightningPHP!
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The public website for LightningPHP. Created with LightningPHP!

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/integrii/lightningphp-website
• Owner: integrii
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2014-12-08T18:44:39.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2015-02-28T03:01:38.000Z (over 10 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-01-14T16:35:33.507Z (5 months ago)
• Language: PHP
• Size: 133 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Contributing: CONTRIBUTING
  • License: LICENSE

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# Overview

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## What is LightningPHP?

LightningPHP is a FAST, mega-lightweight MVC (Model, View, Controller) framework for PHP.  Unlike most every other framework available, LightningPHP includes next to nothing by default.  This is a minimal barebones MVC framework with no fluff, no complication, and no wasted processing time.  LightningPHP can have any PHP Class plugged in as a library or model without custom rewriting or special library versions.

In my use case, using nginx, HHVM and LightningPHP resulted in a **15x speed increase** vs the same app with CodeIgniter and Apache!

## Who should use LightningPHP?

If you are just looking to stand up a PHP website fast, LightningPHP is probably **not** the best framework for you.  You probably do **not** want to use LightningPHP if you are someone who:

- Wants to use a large collection of pre-built functions.

- Wants to stand up a PHP site as easily as possible.

- Does not care about servicing thousands of requests per second.

You probably **do** want to use LightningPHP if you are someone who:

- Likes to keep things simple.

- Wants an *extremely* fast application.

- Wants to be able to use whatever libraries they want without rewriting them.

- Dislikes framework specific learning.

## What makes it so fast?

- It is written in just a single class!

- Loaded models and libraries do not load other models or libraries until you explicitly ask for them.

- Child classes only load a pointer if a model or library has been constructed previously.

- The framework does not assume you want anything loaded by default - not even MySQL support.

- The framework uses static defines instead of variable substitution.

## Core Componets

LightningPHP is made up of a few core componets.  There are as few as possible to keep things simple.  

- Models ``$this->loadModel('')``

- Views ``$this->loadView('')``

- Controllers ``$this->loadController('')``

- Libraries ``$this->loadLibrary('')``

- Configs ``$this->loadConfig('')`` and ``$this->getConfig('')``

Each type of componet has its own directory at the application root.  Learn more [on the wiki](https://github.com/integrii/LightningPHP/wiki/Command-List).

## Example Application

Check out a complete example LightningPHP application [here](https://github.com/integrii/LightningPHP/wiki/Example-Application).