Hello World

Writing Hello World in the Croissant framework is very simple.

By default, since the framework loads the homepage.php worker from the workers folder, the simplest Hello World is adding the following PHP code to homepage.php:

<?php

namespace Croissant;

echo 'Hello World';

die();

This will cause the framework to echo "Hello World" and then halt execution.

Hello World with style

To create a simple Hello World example using a template, create a new file in the /templates folder called helloworld.tpl (if it doesn't already exist).

Add the following markup.

<h1>Hello World</h1>

In your homepage.php file, use:

<?php

namespace Croissant;

Core::Template('helloworld.tpl');

This will display the content of the helloworld.tpl template using default browser styling.

Hello World with more style

To add custom styling, create a new css file in the docroot\css folder called helloworld.css, and add the following line to homepage.php

<?php

namespace Croissant;

Core::Template('helloworld.tpl');

Core::AddCSS('helloworld.css');

In your new homepage.css file add whatever style you want for your <h1> tag.

h1 {

font-size: 2em;

color: blue;

}

Adding data to Hello World

The Croissant Framework makes use of Smarty as its default rendering engine, and a number of methods have been added to make using Smarty simpler.

To add data to a template to be rendered, you Assign the data, then reference it in the template.

homepage.php

<?php

namespace Croissant;

Core::Template('helloworld.tpl');

Core::AddCSS('helloworld.css');

Core::Assign('name', 'John Smith');

homepage.tpl

<h1>Hello {$name}</h1>