Micrus • Tiny, yet powerful, PHP framework

How big does a framework need to be to provide you with a quick, easy and comfortable way of creating neatly structured MVC websites? That can easily be extended and configured?

Well, not big at all. Just try Micrus! Its goal is to keep it as simple as possible, while offering all the most important features, as listed here:

  • Object oriented
  • Very clear MVC structure
  • Dependency Injection Container
  • Event dispatching
  • ORM agnostic, support for Doctrine and RedBean
  • REST-ful routing
  • CRUD generator
  • Template engine agnostic, support for Twig and plain PHP
  • Authentication and authorization
  • Easy configuration with YAML
  • Console tasks using Symfony Console
  • Forms
  • Localization
  • Logging with Monolog (PSR-3 compliant)
  • Caching (PSR-6 compliant)
  • Flash messages
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Hi! I'm Andrea (they/them). I tell computers what to do, both for a living and for fun, I'm also into blogging, writing and photography. I'm trying to make the world just a little bit better: more inclusive, more rational and more just.

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A framework doesn’t have to be overly complex! Micrus provides you with a quick, easy and comfortable way of creating neatly structured, modular MVC websites, which can be easily extended and configured.

Our goal is to keep the framework as simple as possible, while offering all the most important features.

micrus.avris.it gitlab.com/Avris/Micrus

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Picco is a tiny PHP web framework that only takes ~2,5 kB of space and has no dependencies on other libraries, while still providing quite a lot of features, being extensible and reasonably easy to use.

picco.avris.it gitlab.com/Avris/Picco