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Basic Info
Installation
Getting Started
Framework Overview
Overview (cont.)
Core Classes
Core Classes (cont.)
Database Classes
Cache Classes
Hook Classes
Utility Classes
Utility Classes (cont.)
Model Helpers
Filesystem Extension
Zend Extension
Phork Manual Table of Contents
Phork Framework User Guide 1.3.4
API Documentation

Phork Manual Introduction

Phork is a lightweight Open Source PHP 5 framework that provides a solid foundation for developing robust applications. Phork is an object oriented MVC (Model View Controller) framework, and includes URL routing, page caching, template caching, an object registry, optional language translations, and several useful utilities and extensions.

This manual will help you decide if Phork is right for you, and how best to use Phork to build your site.

API Documentation

In addition to this manual, Phork has a complete set of API Documentation generated from the PHPDoc comments.


Quick Start

  1. Download and unzip the Phork package.
  2. Determine if you want to start with the standard base or the lite base. Standard vs. Lite?
  3. Recursively copy either phork/sites/lite/ or phork/sites/standard/ to phork/sites/public/.
  4. Copy the example configuration files from phork/sites/public/config/example/ to phork/sites/public/config/live/ (exclude the config folder).
  5. Edit the configuration files in phork/sites/public/config/live/.
  6. Point your server's document root to /path/to/phork/sites/public/htdocs/.