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Laravel
Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. We’ve already laid the foundation for your next big idea — freeing you to create without sweating the small things.
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RoadRunner
🤯 High-performance PHP application server, process manager written in Go and powered with plugins
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Slim Framework
Slim is a PHP micro framework that helps you quickly write simple yet powerful web applications and APIs. (by slimphp)
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FuelPHP
Fuel PHP Framework v1.x is a simple, flexible, community driven PHP 5.3+ framework, based on the best ideas of other frameworks, with a fresh start! FuelPHP is now fully PHP 8.0 compatible. (by fuel)
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Workerman
An asynchronous event driven PHP socket framework. Supports HTTP, Websocket, SSL and other custom protocols.
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simple-php-website
An introductory example of how to build a simple and minimal website built with PHP.
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fatfree discussion
fatfree reviews and mentions
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2025 Best PHP Micro Frameworks: Slim, Flight, Fat-Free, Lumen, and More!
Popularity: With 2.6k GitHub stars, F3 has a loyal following, though its 2024 growth was steady rather than meteoric. It’s a mature choice with a tight-knit community that’s always tinkering.
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The Demise of the Mildly Dynamic Website
I would try some "old style" php frameworks. Like CodeIgniter or Yii.
If you want even simpler, then maybe try Slim framework. You'll have to add your own data access libs.
If you want Grug brain PHP then there's https://github.com/bcosca/fatfree
You can also use composer package manager to build your framework with libs like routing, sql query builder, etc.
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Top 12 PHP Frameworks For Web Development in 2024
Fat-Free Framework also known as F3, is an open-source PHP micro-framework designed for building web applications. It has 2.6k stars and 400+ forks on GitHub. It allows you only to use the necessary code. It doesn’t need complex configuration, such as setting up Composer, curl, or a complex directory structure. It supports SQL and NoSQL databases like MySQL, SQLite, MSSQL/Sybase, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, etc.
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I'm looking for a php framework
https://github.com/bcosca/fatfree ?
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Exotic/unknown frameworks?
That and internal code that looks like this. And I thought Laravel was obfuscated.
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