1. Getting started

• Introduction
• System requirements
• Installation
• Troubleshooting

2. Basic concepts

• Deployment environments
• Directory structure
• The Class Loader
• Lion Execution Flow

3. Request dispatching

• Request Dispatcher
• URLs and Routes
• Request Intercepting Filters

4. Context container

• Context Container
• Dependency Injection

5. Dual MVC

• Dual MVC
• Model-View-Controller
• Model-View-Presenter
• The Controller
• The Model
• The View
• View.Presenter.pkg

6. Component model:

• The Component Model
• The Component Tag Language
• Component types
• The Default Set of Components
• Event Handlers
  • Lion Events

7. Security

• Security in Lion
• Authentication in Lion
• Authorization in Lion

8. Configuration

• Configuration
• Section Handlers
• Accessing the configuration
• Configuration Xml Schema

9. Session handling

• The Session
• What Lion stores in session

10. I18n

• I18n
• Exceptions and I18n

11. Cache

• The Cache facade
• Caching the model

12. Logging

• The Logging facade

13. Error handling

• Exception management system
• The Error Page
• The Error Table
• Exceptions and I18n

14. Advanced Topics

• Lion Architecture
• The Component Execution Model

15. API reference

• Packages

Tutorials:

• The Hello World
• The Advanced Hello World
• The Hello World Deluxe
• The Hello World Pro
• PHP Login Tutorial

Frequently Asqued Questions