LPF Class

This is the Core class of this framework. It provides public methods for use in your app. Protected or private methods are only for internal usage.

Constants

Here is a table with all given constants.

Contant	Type	Value	Description
VERSION	String	2.7.2	Version of the current framework installation.
NAME	String	LightPHPFramework (LPF)	Name of the current framework installation.
DEVELOPMENT	String	development	Identifies the development environment
TEST	String	test	Identifies the test environment
STAGING	String	staging	Identifies the staging environment
DEVELOPMENT	String	production	Identifies the production environment

Properties

These properties are defined as public.

Properties	Type	Value	Description
$environment	String	production	Currently framework environment.
$encoding	String	UTF-8	Currently encoding type.
$timezone	String	Europe/Berlin	Currently timezone. Is the timezone is not set in your app, the default value from the configuration will be used.

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set_global($const_name, $const_value = false)

This method set a constant. If constant already exists, \LPFException will be thrown.

Static	Yes
Parameters	Parameter	Type	Default	Description
	$const_name	String		Name of constant.
	$const_value	String	null	Value for constant.

Example

		
LPF::set_global('FOO', 'bar');
		
	

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get_global($const_name)

This method get a constant. If given constant not exists, \LPFException will be thrown.

Static	Yes
Parameters	Parameter	Type	Default	Description
	$const_name	String		Name of constant.

Example

		
LPF::get_global('FOO');
		
	

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get_all_globals()

This method get all user constants as object.

Static	Yes
Parameters	Parameter	Type	Default	Description

Example

		
LPF::get_all_global();
		
	

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set_timezone($timezone = null)

This method set the timezone. If timezone is null, the timezone from the configuration file will be used.

Static	Yes
Parameters	Parameter	Type	Default	Description
	$timezone	String	null	Timezone. Example: 'Europe/Berlin'

Example

		
LPF::set_timezone('Europe/Berlin');
		
	

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get_timezone()

This method return the current timezone that was defined by config or in the App > bootrap.php.

Static	Yes
Parameters	Parameter	Type	Default	Description

Example

		
LPF::get_timezone();
		
	

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config($config = null)

This method return given config value that is stored in the default.json config file. If no value is given, the whole config data will be returned as object.

Static	Yes
Parameters	Parameter	Type	Default	Description
	$config	String	null	Config item that should returned. Multi-dimensional arrays can be accessed by separating the levels by a dot "."

Example

		
LPF::config('project.name');