Top 10 PHP Lightweight Projects

Uguu

8 500 7.8 PHP

Uguu is a simple lightweight temporary file host with support for drop, paste, click and API uploading.

Project mention: A page to upload videos and that after "x" time they are deleted? | reddit.com/r/freesoftware | 2022-04-24
WonderCMS

2 457 6.3 PHP

WonderCMS - fast and small flat file CMS (5 files)

Project mention: Question regarding cms installation on a fresh httpd php | reddit.com/r/openbsd | 2022-03-22

poking at their .htaccess file on Github it appears to consist mostly of rewrite rules. You'd have to translate these into httpd.conf syntax for request rewrite (to rewrite the path into index.php?page=$DOCUMENT_URI), block the database.js & cache.json files, and pass-through static media files (any files that actually exist such as theme CSS files or images etc)
Cloudways

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Blog

1 215 5.9 PHP

Lightweight self-hosted facebook-styled PHP blog. (by m1k1o)

Project mention: Facebook-style personal activity journal / tracker | reddit.com/r/selfhosted | 2021-07-29

I'm looking for something between https://github.com/m1k1o/blog and Monica monicahq.com. I don't want something as contact-oriented as Monica, but I want some features (like search).
Wolff

0 215 1.6 PHP

🐺 Lightweight and easy to use framework for building web apps. (by Usbac)
Chyrp Lite

1 183 8.7 PHP

An ultra-lightweight blogging engine, written in PHP.

Project mention: A simple blog with pictures, timestamp and tags | reddit.com/r/selfhosted | 2021-08-16
Pepperminty Wiki

1 120 7.5 PHP

A wiki in a box

Project mention: Real hidden gems when it comes to self hosting | reddit.com/r/selfhosted | 2022-03-17

Personal note-taking and information management - Pepperminty Wiki
nicholas

0 41 0.0 PHP

✨ Ultra-lightweight, no-fuss, flat-file & nearly-headless blogging system
SonarQube

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sharp-pipes

2 32 6.4 PHP

PHP pipes in 156 bytes

Project mention: PHP Pipes in 156 Bytes | news.ycombinator.com | 2022-03-03
LiteConfig

0 5 2.9 PHP

A lightweight PHP static class with zero dependencies.
PurePHPDatabase

1 0 5.0 PHP

PurePHPDatabase is a very minimal database written to use on the limited accessed server.

Project mention: Minimal Only PHP Database | reddit.com/r/databasedevelopment | 2022-04-13

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020). The latest post mention was on 2022-04-24.

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PHP Pipes in 156 Bytes
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1 project | reddit.com/r/selfhosted | 30 Jun 2021
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1 project | reddit.com/r/selfhosted | 1 Mar 2021

Index

What are some of the best open-source Lightweight projects in PHP? This list will help you:

	Project	Stars
1	Uguu	500
2	WonderCMS	457
3	Blog	215
4	Wolff	215
5	Chyrp Lite	183
6	Pepperminty Wiki	120
7	nicholas	41
8	sharp-pipes	32
9	LiteConfig	5
10	PurePHPDatabase	0

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