Clean and well-documented source
Belt is a really handy, and relatively new tool set for PHP developers. It’s initial commit was only 9 days before the date this post was published.
However, it still looks very usable and rather mature. Code has been added at a pretty quick pace, there’s been 102 commits since Belt’s release on GitHub, a little over a week ago.
It’s release under the MIT license, so it’s compatible with the GPL and can safely used in WordPress themes and functions, if you want them included in the official repositories.
Basically, you just include belt and use it’s built in methods/functions to do certain things that would take a bit more work using straight PHP. For example, to get the maximun of an array of numbers, do this:
A value of 3 will be returned, because it’s the max value there.
And from the readme, a list of what Belt offers.
- 60+ useful functions
- ability to use the facade Belt or a dedicated component (e.g. BeltUtilities)
- fully tested
- source code is clean and documented
Seems like it offers some pretty useful functions, and it looks really easy to use. I’ve been looking for a solid PHP base to use and this may just be it. Anyone got any other suggestions? I’ve heard a lot about Skeleton for PHP.
Searching for “skeleton” on GitHub, then filtering for PHP, gives a LOT of results, over 1,000 results to be more precise. So, maybe I’ll browse there for a while before making a decision.
Any suggestions can be left in the comments.
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