dmitrymomot / flex-facade

PHP Classbuilder that allows you to call instance methods using the elegance of static syntax. Has an expandable IoC container as long as the Facade class that allows for the static syntax. Documentation is in the readme.

Flex Facade Container

To install, all you need to do is run the following command

sudo composer create-project flex/facade projectname -s dev

Then. run sudo composer install and the Flex Facade Container will be installed!

All of your classes/facade classes must be autoloaded.
Inside classes/ and facades/ your classes will automatically be autoloaded.

Usage

Initiate the Container

$app = new Flex\Container;

initiates the container class. Because Flex\Container implements ArrayAccess, we can now access any classes we put in here by doing $app['classname']

Creating the Class

Let's create a class that we want to later put in our container.

class Hello
{
	public function say(){
		echo 'Hello, World!';
	}
}

Register a Class in the Container

Let's say you want to register class "Hello", so you can just do $app['hello'] to get an instance. (I am assuming Hello is inside a namespace 'Classes'. This way we can use 'Hello' as an alias)

$app->register('hello', function()
{
	return new Classes\Hello;
});

This registers the Classes\Hello class inside the $app['hello'] container accessor. Now, if we run the following:

$app['hello']->say();

you should see our Hello, World! message.

Creating the Facade

Now, we want to create a facade class, so we can access $app['hello'] by using an Alias.

namespace Facade;

class Hello extends \Flex\Facade
{
	public static function service(){
		return 'hello';
	}
}

This class, when called, will return $app['hello'], as defined in the service method we just created.

Creating the Alias

We are almost done! Now, we just want to create an alias for the 'Facade\Hello' class for simple/elegant access.

$app->alias('Hello', 'Facade\Hello');

Now, we can just call our Hello class using

Hello::say();

and you should see

Hello, World!

Congratulations, now you can access your classes with elegant syntax! Feel free to expand on this. Stay tuned for the Flex PHP Framework.