A lightweight, pure PHP framework inspired by Laravel, designed to help beginners learn and understand how web applications work with the MVC pattern.
PHPure provides a clean, simple, and elegant structure to build PHP applications. It includes essential features like routing, database ORM, template engine, middleware, validation, and more, while keeping the codebase easy to understand and maintain.
This framework is perfect for:
- ✅ Learning the MVC architecture
- ✅ Understanding how web frameworks work under the hood
- ✅ Building small to medium-sized applications
- ✅ Gaining a solid foundation before moving to larger frameworks like Laravel
# Create a new PHPure project
composer create-project mttk2004/phpure project_name
cd project_name
# Install dependencies
npm install
# Configure your environment
cp .env.example .env
# Run the development server
npm run dev:allOpen http://localhost:8000 to see the result!
Detailed documentation is available in the Official PHPure Documentation.
- MVC Architecture - Clean separation of Models, Views, and Controllers
- Routing System - Simple and flexible routing
- Database ORM - Elegant database interactions
- Template Engine - Using Twig for powerful templating
- Middleware - Request/response filtering
This project includes Twig, a template engine licensed under the BSD-3-Clause license, not MIT. All other components of PHPure are licensed under MIT.
PHPure is open-source software licensed under the MIT license.
Created by Mai Trần Tuấn Kiệt.
Contributions are always welcome! See contributing guide for more information.
Last updated: April 2025