Zephyrus — Application Template

The official application template for the Zephyrus PHP framework. Start a new project with a working structure — controllers, Latte views, database, sessions, mailer, and Docker — all preconfigured.

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Quick Start

composer create-project zephyrus-framework/framework my-app
cd my-app
cp .env.example .env
docker compose up

Then open http://localhost.

Install dependencies inside the container on first run:

docker exec -it zephyrus_webserver composer install

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Project Structure

app/
  Controllers/     Route controllers (auto-discovered via attributes)
  Models/          Domain models, services, brokers
  Views/           Latte templates
    layouts/       Layout templates
cache/
  latte/           Compiled template cache (auto-generated)
config.yml         Application configuration (YAML with !env tag support)
docker/            Docker service definitions
locale/            Translation files (JSON)
public/            Web root (Apache document root)
  index.php        Application entry point
  assets/          Static assets (CSS, JS, images, fonts)
sql/               Database initialization scripts
temp/              Temporary files

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Configuration

All configuration lives in config.yml. Sensitive values use the !env tag to reference environment variables from .env:

database:
  host: !env DB_HOST, localhost
  password: !env DB_PASSWORD

Copy .env.example to .env and fill in your values. The example ships with working defaults for the Docker setup.

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Docker Environment

The included docker-compose.yml provides:

Service	Port	Purpose
PHP/Apache	80, 443	Application server (PHP 8.4)
PostgreSQL	5432	Database (auto-initialized from sql/init.sql)
MailCatcher	1080	Email testing UI (SMTP on localhost:1025)

Common Commands

# Start the environment
docker compose up

# Run composer inside the container
docker exec -it zephyrus_webserver composer install
docker exec -it zephyrus_webserver composer update

# Reset the database (removes volume, re-runs init.sql)
docker compose down -v
docker compose up

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Running Without Docker

If you prefer a local PHP setup:

composer install
php -S localhost:8080 -t public

You'll need PHP 8.4+ with mbstring, pdo, intl, and sodium extensions, and a PostgreSQL (or SQLite) database configured in .env.

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Controllers

Controllers use PHP 8 attributes for routing and are auto-discovered from app/Controllers/:

use Zephyrus\Controller\Controller;
use Zephyrus\Routing\Attribute\Get;
use Zephyrus\Routing\Attribute\Post;
use Zephyrus\Http\Request;
use Zephyrus\Http\Response;

class ProductController extends Controller
{
    #[Get('/products')]
    public function index(): Response
    {
        return $this->render('products/index', [
            'products' => [],
        ]);
    }

    #[Post('/products')]
    public function store(Request $request): Response
    {
        $data = $request->body()->all();
        // ...
        return Response::redirect('/products');
    }
}

No manual route registration needed — just create a controller in app/Controllers/ and add route attributes.

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Documentation

Full framework documentation is available on the docs site (coming soon). See the core framework README for API details.

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License

MIT — see LICENSE.