Minz is yet another PHP 8.2+ framework. It has no big ambitions and it is designed with my personal needs in mind.
What I like in Minz is:
- I know the code perfectly (I wrote it);
- it's powerful enough for my needs;
- it has a relative small size;
- it grows ONLY when I need it (the consequence is basic features might be missing);
- it's easy to perform integration tests;
- it provides a common interface for both Web and CLI requests;
- it has very few dependencies (only one at the moment, i.e. PHPMailer);
- I learnt a LOT by coding it and it was quite fun.
You must use Composer to install Minz.
Run:
$ composer require flus/minzThen, in your code:
<?php
require '/path/to/vendor/autoload.php';I'm not intended to develop features that I have no uses (sorry!) That being said, forks are very welcome and I would be happy to link to yours if it brings value over my own codebase.
However, I'll be glad to accept patches for bugs and security flaws.
See the documentation to develop Minz.
When I was a student, my professors introduced me to the Zend Framework (now Laminas project). At the time, it was very frustrating: too big, too abstracted and complicated for the young student I was. I've finally been able to use it, but I wasn't able to explain "how" things were working.
That's when I started the first "Minz" project (for "Minz Is Not Zend", very inspired). Its first repository is still visible on GitHub, but I urge you not to judge the code quality! I learnt how a framework could work and I've got reconciliated with Zend (well, sort of… I've never used it again). I used Minz, first of its name, for a bunch of projects; the most (and only) known today is FreshRSS. It's been hacked a lot since then, but the initial design is still there, in this RSS aggregator.
Almost 10 years later, I started a new PHP project (Webubbub) but I felt a bit rusty and I wanted to apply some ideas I had in mind for years concerning the architecture of Web applications. And that's how I ended up developing another PHP framework. I hope the years of experience are visible in this repository, but please remember I'm not a PHP expert (I mainly used Python and Ruby these last years).
It's still fun to develop a framework from scratch… and it takes some time too.
Today, I use Minz in several projects:
- Flus: a feed aggregator and social bookmarking tool;
- flus.fr: the website of the Web service I provide for Flus;
- taust: a monitoring system easy to setup (provided as a proof of concept);
- Webubbub: a simple WebSub hub.
Minz is licensed under AGPL 3.