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24 alternatives to PhpEZ – A tiny PHP framework for shared LAMP hosting
I needed to make a tiny webapp backend to upload to shared LAMP hosting (they still exist, and I think they're fun despite us being well beyond 2005), but I couldn't face waiting for FTP to sync down however thousands files Laravel or similar frameworks need. So I made a tiny PHP framework that gets packaged into a single file. I'm using it for my own shady purposes, but I decided to put it on GitHub in case anyone else finds the approach useful. It has typed request/response handling, filesystem-based routing, object serialization, database models/schema generation, and a little…
PhpEZ is a minimal PHP framework designed for shared LAMP hosting environments. It packages entirely into a single file to avoid lengthy FTP uploads, eliminating the need to deploy thousands of framework files. The… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Hey HN! I want to share my side project with you. It's called Bud and it's a full-stack web framework for Go. I created a short video to show you how to create a minimal Hacker News clone with Bud: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoypcRqn-xA. The framework is free, open source and MIT Licensed. You can find it on Github: https://github.com/livebud/bud. I started working on Bud 2 years ago after watching the introductory Laracast videos about the Laravel web framework. I was just blown away by how productive you can be in Laravel. However, like many of you,…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I last PHP professionally over 15 years ago, and I loved it. I switched to Ruby on Rails, then Node/Go/React/GraphQL as there was a lot more demand for those roles. However, PHP is back! In true JavaScript fashion, I decided to learn PHP again by building a framework to put all the pieces together in my brain. I absolutely love Hono.dev, and decided to base the PHP framework on that. Dumbo isn't intended to compete with Laravel, Symphony or Slim, if anything, it's something people can use in production, but also contribute to and be used as a learning resource for…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! I've found my SQL knowledge to be lacking, so I made a project that uses SQLite as a backend. As it is intended for self-hosting I aim to make it easy to set up and maintain. Getting it up & running takes no more than a few commands (bar setting up a proxy such as nginx, which is out of scope). I've set up a "demo" site at https://forum.agreper.com/ if you want to try out the UI.
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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PHP Microframework. Contribute to radiosilence/Ham development by creating an account on GitHub.
2012 · github.com · its alternatives →
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FrankenPHP is a new app server for PHP apps (built on top of Caddy) and a library to embed the PHP interpreter in Go web servers.
2022 · frankenphp.dev · its alternatives →
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2016 · dmpop.github.io · its alternatives →
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PHPRunner▲103Professional web apps with little or no coding
2022 · xlinesoft.com · its alternatives →
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ServerPilot simplies fast, secure cloud hosting at any server provider. From WordPress to Laravel, host websites with the full power of cloud servers. You own your data while ServerPilot handles the server management.
2013 · serverpilot.io · its alternatives →
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A self-contained full-text search engine in pure PHP. No extensions, no dependencies. - olivier-ls/php-fts
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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This is a simple PHP framework I built myself from scratch with minimal dependencies from composer. It has Autowiring DI and some simple routing provided by the Slim router. The code: https://github.com/cipher-code/phpframework
2022 · its alternatives →
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Sphido▲111A rocket 🚀 fast, lightweight, static site generator.
2015 · sphido.org · its alternatives →
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Webiik is small, yet powerful PHP framework.
2019 · webiik.com · its alternatives →
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2012 · phpbestpractices.org · its alternatives →
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Hi! I put together a Rust compiler written in PHP. It takes Rust source code and outputs x86-64 Linux binaries directly. No LLVM, no assembler, no linker. It has a working ownership checker, borrow checker, type checker, structs, functions, control flow, and mutable references. The test suite has 80+ cases. The whole thing is around 2,500 lines of PHP.
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Online Code sandbox for PHP with Composer packages support.
2020 · phpsandbox.io · its alternatives →
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