This is a bootstrap application that will quickly get you started writing web apps using standalone components or otherwise known as backend libraries and vanilla PHP code.
Those components have been created with specific needs in mind by very capable
people. Their use covers some standard implementations that would otherwise be a pain
to recreate for each project from scratch.
Each component has been battle tested through many iterations
and their developers as well as the communities around them keep them up to
date and patch every security issue found asap, an aspect that is crucial nowadays.
I recognize the advantage of using full platforms in some projects, but I find myself
very often in situations where I need to quickly bootstrap a project, but I'd rather not use
any specific framework. In the same time I don't want to get back to /index.php and all those
dirty project structures most of us have been through and that's when PHPSailors comes in.
Doesn't that defeat the purpose of using packages/libraries?
It doesn't. You use packages for core things like routing, sending emails,
generating pdfs, loading classes and so on while you do in vanilla code everything else.
Yes, the best of both worlds.
This project evolves with me or I should say a few hundred of steps behind me. As much as I would like it
to be the perfect repository for bootstraping a web app, the perfect code, syntax, implementation and the most
secure there is, the reality is that I don't have the time to make the project grow and be what I want it to be.
I can see my tech skills and approaches change over time and I'm not ashamed of my previous projects or code snippets,
I mean sure they suck, but that's the proof of evolving, therefore, as is right now it suffices my need of having a
quick bootstrapping app and it's pretty good.
Originally, I was planning to keep it as simple as possible, but I realized I need speed of development, therefore
I decided I'll have different branches with different
modules/implementations attached like session based register/auth, token based register/auth,
multi-language/currency and so on, for now though, this is all there is.
