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A general purpose PHP toolkit, with a focus on debugging.

• Improved error reporting with Sledgehammer\Core\Debug\ErrorHandler.
• Improved var_dump() with dump().
• Improved PDO compatible database connection with Sledgehammer\Core\Database\Connection.

Resources

• API Documentation
• Sledgehammer Wiki
• Issue tracker
• Roadmap / Backlog

Scope

• Debugging, error-reporting, logging and profiling functionality.
• A collection of global functions (that should be included in PHP, imho)
• Generic utility classes

Classes

• ErrorHandler : An error reporting solution.
• Base : A more strict base class with improved error messages.
• Sledgehammer/dump() : A colorful var_dump, with copy-pastable array format.
• Database : PDO Database class enhanced with logging/profiling and improved error/warning detection.
• Sql : Generating complex queries in a chainable.
• Collection : Enhanced Array/Iterator handling.
• Text : Chainable UTF-8 string functions.
• Url : Read and generate urls in a OOP style.
• Sledgehammer/cache() : Easy caching api using closures.
• Json : Reliable JSON encoding and decoding.
• Autoloader : Detects classes and interfaces in any php file and load them when needed. no more includes.
• DebugR : Sending debugging information alongside XMLHttpRequests.
• more...

Installation

Use composer to install sledgehammer modules.

composer require sledgehammer/core:*

Just include('vendor/autoload.php'); and the Sledgehammer Framework (and other installed composer libraries) can be used.

You can try the dump function: dump($var); to check if the installation is successful.

ErrorHandler

Add \Sledgehammer\Core\Debug\ErrorHandler::enable(); to allow the Sledgehammer ErrorHandler to handle the errors, warnings, notices and uncaught exceptions.

The errorhandler can send error reports per email to the address configured in ErrorHandler->email.

Static files

Serve static files from modules by adding a line to your rewrite/index.php.

require("vendor/sledgehammer/core/src/render_public_folders.php");

Autoloader

\Sledgehammer\Core\Debug\Autoloader::enable();

Enables the autoloader, which kicks in when the Composer Autoloader was unable to load the class. The Sledgehammer\Core\Autoloader tries to diagnose the issue and loads the class when it can.