PHP framework

Introduction

Ideas for a new PHP framework.

Reasons

There are lots of frameworks out there - why create another one?

Selling points of this framework:

• Welcoming community
• No overbearing '(benevolent) dictator for life' - want to move to a group model as soon as possible, either as a separate foundation or under an existing umbrella
• Tutorial documentation as well as API references
• Minimal overhead - mostly a collection of existing modules with a bit of glue to hold them together
• Convention over configuration - do not allow people to change things
• Support whichever version of PHP is in latest Ubuntu LTS, and previous version if latest was released less than 6 months ago
• Works with strict_types and E_ALL

Features

Framework should support the following features:

• Front controller with routing
• Templates (Twig)
• Ship with sensible .gitignore
• Installable with composer create-project
• Database migrations
• Route model binding

Simplicity

To keep the framework as small and simple as possible, it will follow these principles:

• Fixed filesystem layout - no moving controllers to a different directory etc.

Filesystem layout

The following directories and files need to exist:

• public/index.php: Front controller
• composer.json: Project metadata and dependencies