Welcome to PHP-Bottle’s documentation!¶

PHP Bottle - PHP micro-framework inspired by minimalistic PyBottle.

Its goal is to provide a lightweight stack to quickly build modern web applications in PHP. It provides (M)VC approach, dynamic routing, support for any kind of templating, and it’s very agnostic.

Here is an example of what you’ll have to write in order to get a dynamic web application with PHP-Bottle:

<?php

define('APPLICATION_PATH', realpath(dirname(__FILE__)) . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR);

require_once('bottle.phar');

/**
 * This is a condition function for a route.
 */
function authenticated($request) {
    return $request->getParam('password') == 'bottleisacoolframework';
}

/**
 * @route /
 */
function index() {
    return 'Welcome on the Bottle index page!';
}

/**
 * @route /hello/:name
 */
function hello($name) {
    return "<h1>Hello, {$name}!</h1>";
}

/**
 * @route /mul/:num
 * @view /views/mul.php
 */
function mul($num) {
    return ['result' => $num * $num];
}

/**
 * @route /restricted
 * @requires authenticated
 * @view /views/restricted.php
 */
function restricted() {
    return ['status' => 'OK'];
}

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