WebFiori Framework Version 2.0.0

Hello everyone. Today is a big day for me. The reason for that is version 2.0.0 of WebFiori Framework was just released.

This release is considered as a major release since it is a whole refactor of version 1.0 of the framework. For more information about this release, you can check GitHub Repo of the project.

If you don't know what is WebFiori framework, it is a web development framework which was built in top of PHP language. The framework makes it easy for web developers to build simple web applications. For more information about the project, chech this page: https://webfiori.com/learn/introduction

What I Have Learned Today: Using PHP Through Command Line Interface (CLI)

One of the things that I was interested in is how some PHP frameworks can be used from command line interface to execute PHP code and commands. Some of the tools that I have used are composer and PHPUnit and both can be used from command line. For that reason, I started to think about adding this feature to WebFiori Framework.

After few attempts and failures, I managed to add basic support for running the framework from command line. You can see from the following picture that running the framework from CMD is working without problems.

There are few things that I had to do in order to add support for running the framework from the command line. The things are the following:

• Checking if main script file is loaded using command line using the method php_sapi_name().
• Initializing some $_SERVER and $_ENV variables as they are not initialized if PHP script is accessed through command line.
• Getting command line arguments using the constant $_SERVER['argv'].

For the last two steps, I created new class to handle the two tasks. The name of the class is CLI.php After doing that, I have only changed few lines of code in main class to redirect user to use CLI as shown in the following picture.

WebFiori, New Web Development Framework

WebFiori Framework is new web development framework which was built in top of PHP scripting language. It was designed from scratch to provide the developer with needed tools to setup new website or create a very complex web application using minimum tools.

Basic features (Taken from official website):

• Theming and the ability to create multiple UIs for the same web page using any CSS or JavaScript framework.
• Support for routing that makes the ability of creating search-engine-friendly links an easy task.
• Creation of web APIs that supports JSON, data filtering and validation.
• Basic support for MySQL schema and query building.
• Lightweight. The total size of framework core files is less than 3 megabytes.
• Access management by assigning system user a set of privileges.
• The ability to create and manage multiple sessions at once.
• Support for creating and sending nice-looking emails in a simple way by using SMTP protocol.
• Autoloading of user defined classes.
• The ability to create automatic tasks and let them run in specific time using CRON.
• Support for logging of system events.
• Well-defined file upload and file handling sub-system.

The project is currently hosted in my personal website and it can be accessed through the URL: https://programmingacademia.com/webfiori . You can find more information about the project there.

Another thing is that the project is open source and is licensed under MIT license. You can grab the source code of the framework from my GitHub repo at https://github.com/usernane/webfiori.

Your Contribution is Appreciated

One of the things that I need your help in is your feedback (Negative or positive). You can help me by trying the framework your self and provide me with your feedback. You check https://programmingacademia.com/webfiori/learn to get started.

Another thing is that you might find hundreds of issues in the source code of the framework since I'm not an experienced PHP developer (Design issues, Security issues, Bad practices, etc...). What you can possibly do is to review the source code and report any issue that you might find regarding how things are done.

Also, if you need any help regarding how to use the framework or you are just interested, please join telegram group using the following link: https://t.me/webfiori

Thank you for your time.