A php micro-framework for simple and quick web-applications

[!IMPORTANT] This project will not receive any major updates in the near future. I have paused development indefinitely as I no longer have enough freetime. QuickyPHP has not been discontinued, development is just delayed.

Motivation

I started this project because I wanted to procrastinate important work for university. No joke. But it turned into a slight obsession that has been with me for a few days now. I found developing my own PHP micro-framework so interesting that I kept reading up on documentation and articles and watching tutorial after tutorial.

The framework has the sense to be structured as simple as possible, to be easily customizable by anyone to their needs. I also experimented with technologies that I had never used before but found in other projects or got to know at university (e.g. method dispatcher or reflection classes). Also, the project was partly done in collaboration with ChatGPT (OpenAI), which was also a memorable experiment.

I got the idea of how a simple PHP framework works from other open source projects. Here is a selection (if you read it carefully, you will quickly see parallels to my framework and its structure):

• FlightPHP
• SlimFramework
• CakePHP
• Laravel Lumen

Example Application

A simple web application powered by this framework:

require __DIR__ . "/../vendor/autoload.php";

use Quicky\Http\Request;
use Quicky\Http\Response;
use Quicky\App;

$app = App::create();

App::route("GET", "/", function(Request $request, Response $response) {
    $response->write("Hello World");
    return $response;
});

$app->run();

More Features

Flexible Factory

You can build complex application configurations with the in-built AppFactory very easily!

$app = AppFactory::empty()
  ->catch("exception", function (Throwable $exception) { ... })
  ->state("development")
  ->middleware(RateLimitMiddleware::class, 1, 5)
  ->alias("sayHello", function () { echo "Hello World"; })
  ->build();

Automatic Dispatching

This framework will automatically search for the correct method to dispatch, for any static invocation.

use Quicky\Interfaces\DispatchingInterface;

class MyTest implements DispatchingInterface
{
  private array $dispatching;

  public function __construct()
  {
    $this->dispatching = array("test");
  }

  public function dispatches(string $method): bool
  {
    return in_array($method, $this->dispatching);
  }

  public function test(): void
  {
    echo "I'm a test";
  }
}

Secure Routing

Protect your application with security sensitive middleware to prevent basic attack patterns.

use Quicky\Middlewares\RateLimitMiddleware;
use Quicky\Middlewares\CORSMiddleware;
use Quicky\Middlewares\LoggingMiddleware;

// Routes can be accessed once every 5 seconds
App::use("middleware", new RateLimitMiddleware(1, 5));

// This route additionally sets special CORS headers & enables logging
App::route("GET", "/admin", function (Request $request, Response $response) {
  $response->render("admin.dashboard");
  return $response;
})
->middleware(new CORSMiddleware())
->middleware(new LoggingMiddleware());

Requirements

QuickyPHP requires PHP 7.4+ or PHP 8 (check compatibility) and a webserver that supports Rewrite Rules.
Note: Composer Version 2 is required to find and install the package.

Installation

Download files:

Via Composer

Install the project via command-line:

composer create-project david-prv/quickyphp

Via GitHub

Create a project folder: Download git repository:

git clone https://github.com/david-prv/QuickyPHP.git

Install requirements

Install without development requirements:

composer install

Use the --no-dev tag, if you want to skip the development dependencies. If you also want to skip the platform requirement check, use the tag --ignore-platform-reqs, which is not recommended.

CLI Usage

Start local PHP development server

php quicky-cli start [<address> [<port>]]

e.g. php quicky-cli start localhost 3000

Clear logs

php quicky-cli clear logs

Clear cache

php quicky-cli clear cache

Restore default configuration

php quicky-cli config restore

Update configuration

php quicky-cli config set <field> <value>

e.g. php quicky-cli config set project.env production

Contributing

Please feel free to contribute to this project. I am always happy to see new and fresh ideas.
Learn more

Support

If you like what I do, feel free to buy me a coffee for my work.
Programming early in the morning is hard without a good cup of this magical liquid.

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License

Released under GPL by @david-prv.