DotKernel

A workhorse built on top of Laminas and Mezzio

Designed for

Control , Scalability & Performance

Dotkernel is a collection of PSR-7 Middleware applications.

Frontend

Admin

API

Extending the power of

Mezzio /// Laminas

Containers

DotKernel is built around the PSR-11 dependency container. We have chosen Laminas Service Manager as our default implementation.

Get started with Laminas Service Manager

Templating

By default, no middleware in Mezzio is templated. For DotKernel’s Frontend application, we have chosen Twig as the default templating engine.

Get started with Twig

Routers

Among the various routing implementations compatible with Expressive, we have chosen FastRoute as DotKernel’s default routing library.

Get started with FastRoute

Http messages

Mezzio, and consequently DotKernel is built around the PSR-7 standard. It uses Laminas Diactoros as the PSR-7 implementation.

Get started with

PSR-7 and Diactoros

DotKernel

Components

Authentication and user

dot-authentication: core authentication interfaces
dot-authentication-service (laminas-authentication): concrete authentication implementation based on laminas-authentication adapters
dot-authentication-web: simple login/logout web flow leveraging dot-authentication
dot-user: configurable user component provinding common user functionality

Authorization

dot-authorization: core authorization interfaces
dot-rbac: RBAC authorization implementation
dot-rbac-guard: RBAC for authorizing sections of an application

Controllers

dot-controller: controller-like middleware for mezzio
Plugins

Forms, hydration and input validation

Session

dot-session(laminas-session)
dot-flashmessenger: short lived session messages

Mailing

dot-mail(laminas-mail)

Backend abstraction (database)

dot-mapper: a simple mapper pattern implementation
laminas-db

Navigation and pagination

dot-navigation: easy menu configuration and parsing
dot-paginator(laminas-paginator)

Others

dot-cache(laminas-cache)
dot-log(laminas-log)
dot-annotated-services: create and inject services with dependecies through annotations
dot-event(laminas-eventmanager)
dot-helpers
dot-twigrenderer: extend the twig renderer with useful extensions and laminas-view helpers

Blog posts

Useful reads

Designed and built by Apidemia

Control, Scalability & Performance

DotKernel is an Open Source project created and led by the dev team @Apidemia, initially as an internal tool to handle complex architectures, now freely open, our way of giving back to the community.

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Dotkernel 3 at Github Dotkernel 3 at Packagist