corcel VS fig-standards

It's here, but you may prefer Composer, the package manager for PHP:

Or alternatively - there are php packages for working directly with a wp database outside of wordpress: https://github.com/williarin/wordpress-interop, https://github.com/corcel/corcel

If you go this route, Corcel https://github.com/corcel/corcel is great.

You could also try something like Corcel for heavier emphasis on Laravel usage.

Another thing you may want to keep up your sleeve to transition between the two is Corcel, which lets you use WP for the backend/body, and Laravel to render the frontend/head of an application.

There are "bridges" like https://github.com/corcel/corcel

- https://github.com/corcel/corcel

The namespaces and class names must follow this example.

I would familiarize yourself with the following PHP standards: https://www.php-fig.org

The PHP Standard Recommendation, or PSR for short, from the aforementioned PHP-FIG.

That's what happens if you use a PSR-4 autoloader and not utilise PSR-4 in your project structure 👀 So either use PSR-0 or properly use PSR-4.

PHP really "got it's act together" in my view when packagist and composer (which are PHP's equivalent of npm) became mainstream and with the release of the PSR community standards. We were admittedly a little behind the curve with regards to package managers but with standardised formats and not having to copy and paste zip file libraries anymore, PHP received a new lease of life.