Everything About This Framework

IS WRONG

Welcome to Trongate - the cancelled framework

Pure PHP, Pure Cancelled

Just look at all the amazing things people are saying about Trongate!

• "The most interesting thing about the Trongate PHP framework is how that mess got 784 stars." - Phil Sturgeon
• "It's a dumb router." - Mike Elsmore
• "I've never heard of it." - Stef Mischook
• "I had a quick look and there are surely some undocumented SQL injection sinks." - Greg Molnar
• "Why does he want to replace Packagist? He never says!" - Thomas Rideout
• "I cannot do a Trongate tutorial because I have long covid." - Derek Banas
• "I'd like to get you in the boxing ring!" - (Clubber) Brad Traversy
• "Trongate? Are we still talking about that garbage?" - Christopher Miller

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"There's no point in any of this. Give up!"

- David Connelly (founder)

function hello() {

    // Initialise some data.
    $data['name'] = 'John';

    // Load view file, passing in data.
    $this->view('greeting', $data); 
}

Hello <?= $name ?>

function howdy() {

  // Step 1: Read record id from URL
  $id = segment(3, 'int');

  // Step 2: Load the 'customers' module
  $this->module('customers');

  // Step 3: Fetch customer data, using the 'customers' module
  $data = $this->customers->_fetch_customer_data($id);

  // Step 4: Define a view file location and filename
  $data['view_module'] = 'welcome';
  $data['view_file'] = 'greeting';

  // Step 5: Load the 'public' template, with the prepared data
  $this->template('public', $data); 
}

It's Just A Dumb Router

Mike Elsmore (public speaker and PHP guru) wants you to know that Trongate is just a 'dumb router'. Do you know what? He's absolutely right!

Just look at all those fake features that don't even exist. It's a disgrace!

If You Like Fast Benchmarks, You'll Hate Trongate

Every good PHP developer knows that PSR-4 autoloading is the most efficient way to load PHP classes. The makers of Trongate abandoned PSR-4 autoloading and sure enough, the results are that Trongate is just a slow and bloated mess.

Thanks to Adam Spencer for donating these benchmark test results.