http://www.userfrosting.com

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Copyright (c) 2015, free to use in personal and commercial software as per the license.

UserFrosting is a secure, modern user management system written in PHP and built on top of the Slim Microframework and the Twig templating engine.

Please see our installation guide.

If you are having trouble installing UserFrosting, please read our troubleshooting guide first!

If you are generally confused about the structure and layout of the code, or it doesn't look like the kind of PHP code that you're used to, please read Navigating UserFrosting.

If you want a good tour of the code base, we recommend going through our tutorials.

UserFrosting seeks to balance modern programming principles, like DRY and MVC, with a shallow learning curve for new developers. Our goals are to:

• Create a fully-functioning user management script that can be set up in just a few minutes
• Make it easy for users to quickly adapt the code for their needs
• Introduce novice developers to best practices such as separation of concerns and DRY programming
• Introduce novice developers to modern constructs such as front-end controllers, RESTful URLs, namespacing, and object-oriented modeling
• Build on existing, widely used server- and client-side components
• Clean, consistent, and well-documented code

http://www.userfrosting.com/navigating/#composer

http://www.userfrosting.com/navigating/#slim

http://www.userfrosting.com/navigating/#structure

http://www.userfrosting.com/navigating/#twig

http://www.userfrosting.com/components/#theming

http://www.userfrosting.com/components/#plugins

• URL Routing and micro-framework: Slim
• Templating: Twig

This project grew out of a need for a simple user management system for my tutoring business, Bloomington Tutors. I wanted something that I could develop rapidly and easily customize for the needs of my business. Since my prior web development experience was in pure PHP, I decided to go with the PHP-based UserCake system.

Over time I modified and expanded the codebase, turning it into the UserFrosting project. This latest version (0.3.0) represents a major break from the original architecture of UserCake. We now use a fully object-oriented data model and a front controller for URL routing.