Introducing xTend

What is xTend?

xTend is a PHP MVC framework. While other frameworks, such as Laravel, are focusing on implementing every feature or function a developer could ever want, xTend is focused on keeping it fast, adaptable, extendable and non-bloated. This means there is a lot of built-in features you'll find in Laravel you will not find here, however because of the adaptable and extendable nature of xTend it is extremely easy to add a library, or your own script, to enable a certain feature.

What's in it for me?

• Dependency free
• Simple packagist support
• Clean and powerful URL's
• Easy to understand structure (Model-View-Controller)
• Easy to setup and configure
• Easy to adapt and extend
• Blazing fast
• Easily customizable templating engine
• A lot of helper functions to keep your code clean
• A simple CLI to do basic interactions

Benchmark

My setup

HP Envy 15-j000eb
Elementary OS Freya 0.3.2
Intel i7-4700MQ
12 GB RAM
1 TB HDD (No SSD)

Webserver

Hiawatha webserver with PHP7 FPM
Link

The command

ab -c 10 -t 10 http://localhost/

The results right after setup

1st run

    Complete requests:      23136
    Requests per second:    2313.58 [#/sec] (mean)
    Time per request:       4.322 [ms] (mean)
    Time per request:       0.432 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)

2nd run

    Complete requests:      20817
    Requests per second:    2081.59 [#/sec] (mean)
    Time per request:       4.804 [ms] (mean)
    Time per request:       0.480 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)

The results with view, layout, controller and URL parameter

1st run

    Complete requests:      18934
    Requests per second:    1893.25 [#/sec] (mean)
    Time per request:       5.282 [ms] (mean)
    Time per request:       0.528 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)

2nd run

    Complete requests:      23163
    Requests per second:    2316.17 [#/sec] (mean)
    Time per request:       4.317 [ms] (mean)
    Time per request:       0.432 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)

Example

You can find an example application in the examples directory. It's a very simple tasklist project. (Don't forget to set the app url when you run it)

Documentation

Read The Docs

I got some questions

You can always send me a message on either gitter or using email

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