Opulence

Introduction

Opulence is a PHP web application framework that simplifies the difficult parts of creating and maintaining a secure, scalable website. With Opulence, things like database management, caching, ORM, page templates, and routing are a cinch. It was written with customization, performance, and best-practices in mind. Thanks to test-driven development (TDD), the framework is reliable and thoroughly tested. Opulence is split into components, which can be installed separately or bundled together.

Installation

Opulence can be installed using Composer:

composer create-project opulence/project --prefer-dist

Documentation

For complete documentation, visit the official website.

Requirements

PHP 7.0, or HHVM >= 3.11.0
OpenSSL
mbstring
A default PHP timezone set in the PHP.ini

License

This software is licensed under the MIT license. Please read the LICENSE for more information.

History

Opulence is written and maintained by David Young. It started as a simple exercise to write a RESTful API router in early 2014, but it quickly turned into something else. At my 9-5 job, I was struggling with complex SQL queries that were being concatenated/Frankenstein'd together, depending on various conditions. I decided to write "query builder" classes that could programmatically build queries for me, which greatly simplified my problem at work. The more I worked on the simple features, the more I got interested into diving into the more complex stuff like ORM. Before I knew it, I had developed a suite of tools, which are coming together to become the framework that was originally named RDev. I used the name until mid-July 2015 when I decided to give it a proper name. Why "Opulence"? It's feature-rich, that's why. Maybe it'll make you rich one day.