PhpEZ
A tiny PHP framework for shared LAMP hosting
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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 schema alignment tool. It has no Composer dependencies.It's very much a tiny thing, but if anyone wants to try it and tell me where it breaks, I'd appreciate it :)
HN · launched Aug 29, 2026 · 11 upvotes (top 39%) · 1 view
Niche: software development frameworks · 154 launches, 2 in the last 7 days ▼ -89% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Launched 303 days after the earliest competitor.
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