Hexagonal Application Skeleton using CakePHP 3.6+

This is a pure learning project and proof of concept! NOT ready for production!

A hexagonal architecture is using ports and adapters to communicate and separate different layers of your application.

This application skeleton is trying to implement a hexagonal architecture using the goodies of the CakePHP framework.

Goals

• Learning something about software architecture
• Stay PSR compatible with all interfaces if possible
• Follow php-pds
• Using DI container
• Use IoC where it makes sense
• Typehint almost everything
• Using a command bus (but no CQRS)

Installation

• Clone the repository git@github.com:burzum/hexagonal-cake.git
• Go into the folder cd hexagonal-cake
• Run composer composer install
• Copy config/app.default.php to config/app.php
• Configure the database connection in your app.php
• Point your web server config for the host you are using to the public folder
• Done

Documentation

Check the docs folder of this repository.

Additional Libs besides CakePHP

• League\Container
• League\Tacitician

Useful links

• Books
  • Martin Fowler: Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
• Links / Articles
• Videos
  • Matthias Noback: Hexagonal Architecture - Message-Oriented Software Design

License

Copyright Florian Krämer

Licensed under the MIT License. Redistributions of the source code included in this repository must retain the copyright notice found in each file.