Developers

Below is the extensive developer documentation covering every aspect of the Elefant web framework, including tons of sample code to help you get started fast.

Overview

Elefant design principles
Elefant architecture
Code conventions
Contributing
Changelog
Future

Essentials

API reference
Autoloading and namespaces
Using Composer packages

Tutorials

Code example: Hello world
Code example: Events
Code example: Ridiculously easy forms
Code example: Authorizing users
Code example: Paging a data set
Code example: Sending email
CRUD Generator
CRUD Tutorial
Custom user pages
Custom user properties
Version control basics
Locking items while editing
Elefant with Backbone.js
RESTful APIs
Elefant with other frameworks
Custom user authentication
Unit testing your apps
Deploying your site with git-deploy
Multilingual website setup
Multisite setup

Core libraries

Page routing and handler basics
Database API and models
Templates
Forms and input validation
Internationalization
Error handling, debugging, and reporting

Additional features

Hooks and WebHooks
Command line usage
App configurations
Global configurations
Date time formatting and time zones
Dependency Injection Container
Memcache
Logging
Installing and upgrading apps
Dynamic handlers and the wysiwyg editor
Setting up dev, staging, production environments
Command line utility
Chunked transfer encoding
Browser detection
Using the PHP 5.4 built-in web server
Notifications
JavaScript and Client Side Helpers

Comparing frameworks

Performance
PHP Framework Benchmarks
Template Benchmarks
Database Layer Benchmarks
Elefant compared to Symfony2
Comparison to Sitellite CMS

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