Frrame

A PHP application blueprint, not a framework you learn — a small directory convention you copy and then treat as your own code.

Philosophy

• Nothing is mandatory except a handful of top-level directories. Sessions, HTTP headers, DB access, i18n — all optional, independent, swappable classes that live in your own app/, not hidden in a vendor/ package.
• Routing never depends on URL-rewriting. An entry file's path relative to wherever your webserver's docroot points is the route — no mod_rewrite, no .htaccess, no router required. If you don't control the webserver, this is what lets the project run unmodified anyway: copy the files up and it works.
• Everything else is free. A router, DI container, ORM, global exception handler — none of it is off-limits, it's just not shipped by default.

Getting started

composer create-project raymondoor/frrame <your-app-name>
cd <your-app-name>
npm install
cp .env.sample .env   # then fill in your own values

Point your webserver's docroot at public/ (or somewhere else entirely — routing doesn't care). During development:

npm run dev            # Vite dev server
vendor/bin/phpunit     # test/Unit/

For production, npm run build outputs to public/dist/.

Directory structure

app/       PHP application code (blueprints, controllers, models, ...)
public/    webroot — every index.php here is a route
resource/  views, i18n, front-end source, DB migrations
script/    CLI scripts (migrations, seeders)
doc/       human-facing project docs
log/       runtime log output (gitignored)
test/      Unit (PHPUnit), Agent/User (disposable checks)

Learn more

See doc/context/ for architecture decisions, implementation notes, and product context.