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edgaralexanderfr/php-espresso
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Runtime web server for PHP.

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PHP Espresso Framework
======================

[](#php-espresso-framework)

 [![PHP Espresso Example GIF](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/edgaralexanderfr/php-espresso/master/public/img/example.gif)](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/edgaralexanderfr/php-espresso/master/public/img/example.gif)

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**PHP Espresso** is a small PHP Framework I created to develop runtime web servers for PHP running CLI programs and scripts. Very similar to frameworks like **Express** for ***NodeJS***, **Gorilla Mux** for ***Golang***, etc.

**IMPORTANT NOTE:** This is just a *proof of concept* to test the reliability of a runtime web server for PHP, its use and implementation is discouraged for **production-level** projects as it's an experimental framework for learning purposes.

PHP was designed to be a **Single-Threaded** **Non-Asynchronous** programming language, hence, the implementation of these type of web servers is very difficult as there will be always blocking processes for each request, hence, this server/framework is non-scalable.

##### Table of contents 📖

[](#table-of-contents-)

1. [Requirements](#requirements)
2. [Installation](#installation)
3. [Usage](#usage)

- [3.1 Creating a basic web server](#server)
- [3.2 Serving a basic static HTML Page](#html)
- [3.3 Create a POST request](#post)
- [3.4 Complete Rest API CRUD example](#crud)
- [3.5 Defining middlewares](#middlewares)
- [3.6 Asynchronous programming](#async)

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

1. **PHP 8.0.0 or major**
2. **Have PHP sockets module installed and enabled**
3. **Composer**
4. **Have a initted Composer project**

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

Install **PHP Espresso** via Composer:

```
composer require edgaralexanderfr/php-espresso
```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

### Creating a basic web server

[](#creating-a-basic-web-server)

Create a ***server.php*** file inside your project with the following program:

```