Divergence is a PHP framework designed for rapid development and modern practices without becoming an over abstracted mess.

Requires PHP 8.1+

<?php

namespace App\Models;

use Divergence\Models\Model;
use Divergence\Models\Mapping\Column;

class Article extends Model
{
    public static $tableName = 'articles';

    #[Column(type: 'string', notnull: true)]
    private string $Title;

    #[Column(type: 'clob', notnull: true)]
    private string $Body;
}

Divergence is a full-featured ActiveRecord framework built on a reflection-driven DTO-style backend. It is designed for performance, and it backs that up with benchmarks. It gives developers a fast procedural-global path for getting real work done, while its internal abstractions stay disciplined and modern. Divergence follows PSR-4, PSR-7, and PSR-15 wherever doing so strengthens the framework instead of turning it into ceremony.

Unit testing the code base and providing code coverage is a primary goal of this project.

• Models

  • Real PHP classes.
  • Declare fields with static arrays or PHP 8 attributes (#[Column(...)]).
  • Declare relationships with static arrays or PHP 8 attributes (#[Relation(...)]).
  • Built in support for relationships and object versioning.
  • Speed up prototyping and automate new deployments by automatically creating tables based on your models when none are found.
  • Built in support for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite.

• Routing

  • Simpler, faster, tree based routing system.
  • Built with basic class inheritance in mind.

• Controllers

  • PSR-7 compatible controllers.
  • Pre-made REST API controllers allow you to build APIs rapidly.
  • 100% Unit test coverage for filters, sorters, and conditions.
  • Build HTTP APIs in minutes by extending RecordsRequestHandler and setting the one config variable: the name of your model class.
  • RecordsRequestHandler and MediaRequestHandler route response-producing actions through focused endpoint classes instead of one large handler method pile.
  • Use a pre-made security trait with RecordsRequestHandler or extend it and write in your own permissions.
  • Standard permissions interface allows reuse of permission traits from one model to another.

• Templates

  • Out of the box support for Twig

• Media

  • Out of the box support for a media storage.
  • Automated thumbnail generation for JPEG, GIF, PNG, and PDF.
  • Built in support for MP4 and WEBM chunkable emitters allowing you to easily host videos with the ability to seek.
  • Manage media remotely with a built in JSON API using the standard permissions interface for all controllers.
  • Supports POST and PUT request types for media uploads.

composer require divergence/divergence

The divergence/cli package is also available to initialize new projects and manage database configurations from the command line.

# Run all test suites
composer test

# MySQL suite only
composer test:mysql

# PostgreSQL suite only
composer test:pgsql

# SQLite in-memory suite only
composer test:sqlite

# Run merged coverage across MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite
composer test:coverage

All issues and pull requests should be filed on the Divergence/framework repository.

The Divergence framework is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license

• The patterns in this framework are a fork of the PHP framework portion of Emergence by Chris Alfano.
• This project is maintained by Henry Paradiz