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jacksleight/coast
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Web application framework for PHP

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Coast
=====

[](#coast)

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Coast is a web application framework. The goal of Coast is to provide a simple, lightweight and flexible framework for building high-performance, modern web apps. Some parts of the API were inspired by the Connect and Express node.js frameworks.

Components
----------

[](#components)

All components are designed to be as standalone as possible and can generally be used independently. Many implement `App\Executable` for use as middleware in applications, these are marked with a ★.

- **Acl**
    - Access control list
- **App, Request, Response** ★
    - Simple Express inspired application logic
    - HTTP request and response data handling
    - Lazy loading of application dependencies
    - Sub-applications
- **Config**
    - Load and merge config files into config object
- **Controller** ★
    - Request controller
- **Csp** ★
    - Content security policy header generation
    - Generation of nonce values
- **Csrf** ★
    - Cross site request forgery protection
- **Feed**
    - ATOM feed generation
- **Filter**
    - Data filtering
- **Http**
    - HTTP client (based on cURL)
- **Image** ★
    - Image manipulation
    - Requires [intervention/image](https://github.com/Intervention/image)
- **Lazy** ★
    - Lazy load files/closures on demand
- **Model, Collection**
    - Base entity and entity collection classs
    - Works with Filter, Transformer, Validator
- **Path, Dir, File**
    - Path, directory and file manipulation
- **Resolver**
    - Resolves strings, files, routes etc. into URLs
- **Router** ★
    - Path and method routing
- **Session** ★
    - Session management and data wrapper
- **Sitemap**
    - XML sitemap generation
- **Transformer**
    - Data transformation
- **Url**
    - URL manipulation
- **Validator**
    - Data validation
- **View** ★
    - Powerfull view component
    - Child and parent (wrapper) views
    - Extensible views
    - Output capture
- **Xml**
    - SimpleXML extensions

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

[](#installation)

The easiest way to install Coast is through [Composer](https://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md), by creating a file called `composer.json` containing:

```
{
    "require": {
        "jacksleight/coast": "dev-master"
    }
}
```

And then running:

```
composer.phar install
```

Hello World
-----------

[](#hello-world)

Create a new file called `app.php` containing:

```