Introduction
Lithium is a powerful PHP framework designed for building robust and scalable web applications. It follows a simple, lightweight, and flexible architecture that promotes rapid development and code reusability.
Whether you are developing a simple website or a complex enterprise application, Lithium provides the tools and features necessary to streamline your development process and deliver high-performance results.
Key Features
- Modular and extensible architecture
- Flexible routing system
- Integrated ORM (Object-Relational Mapping)
- Efficient data validation and sanitization
- Security measures, including protection against common vulnerabilities
- Support for both SQL and NoSQL databases
- Powerful templating engine
- Comprehensive internationalization (i18n) support
- Caching mechanisms for improved performance
- Unit and functional testing support
- Command-line interface for task automation
Getting Started
Installation
To start using Lithium, you need to install it in your development environment. Here’s how:
- Open your terminal or command prompt.
- Navigate to your project directory.
- Run the following command to install Lithium via Composer:
composer require li3/li3
Basic Setup
Once you have Lithium installed, follow these steps to set up a basic project:
- Create a new folder for your project.
- Inside the project folder, create the following directory structure:
app
– Contains your application-specific code.config
– Contains configuration files.resources
– Contains static files such as images, CSS, and JavaScript.webroot
– Publicly accessible webroot folder.
- Customize your application’s configuration settings by modifying the files within the
config
folder. - Create a new file named
index.php
inside thewebroot
directory with the following content:
<?php require '../app/config/bootstrap.php'; ?>
Documentation
User Guide
The Lithium User Guide provides detailed documentation to help you understand and utilize the features of the framework effectively. Here are some essential sections of the User Guide:
API Reference
The Lithium API Reference provides comprehensive details and specifications about the framework’s classes, methods, and functions. You can consult the API Reference to explore the various components and functionalities of Lithium.
Visit the API Reference to access the complete documentation for Lithium.
Community
Jump into the Lithium community to connect with other developers, ask questions, and share your knowledge.
- Visit the official discussion forum.
- Join the Lithium Slack workspace to interact with the community.
- Follow the Lithium developers on Twitter.
Contributors
We would like to express our gratitude to the following contributors who have worked on making Lithium better:
- Contributor 1 (@contributor1)
- Contributor 2 (@contributor2)
- Contributor 3 (@contributor3)