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Fraym is a boxed PHP framework for building ERP-style web applications with a minimum of boilerplate. It ships both a PHP backend (the fraym/fraym package) and a self-contained JS/CSS frontend runtime — no build step, no Node, no SPA framework required.

Philosophy

Fraym deliberately avoids heavy abstractions. There is no ORM, no template engine, no DI container framework, and no JS bundler. Instead it gives you a small, explicit core you can read end to end:

Data access is a thin, fully parameterized query layer over PDO.
HTML is produced by plain PHP string building plus an output-escaping helper.
The frontend is a ~5k-line vanilla-JS runtime (_() wrapper, SPA navigation, lazy module loading) served as static assets.
A 40-line service locator (Container) plus proxy constants (DB, CACHE, CURRENT_USER) make the core testable and worker-friendly without a framework.

If you want convention-driven CRUD modules, first-class MySQL/PostgreSQL support, and a frontend that works without a toolchain, Fraym fits. If you want a Symfony/Laravel-style ecosystem with an ORM and Twig, it does not.

Requirements

PHP 8.4
PostgreSQL 13+ or MySQL 5.7+

Installation

composer require alxgarshin/fraym
./vendor/bin/console install

Configure the database connection in .env.dev, then run the initial migration:

./vendor/bin/console database:migrate --env=dev

Your project is ready to go.

Documentation

Getting started — a CRUD module in five minutes.
Architecture — CMSVC, bootstrap, container, entities, elements.
Security — auth model, CSRF, SQL safety, output escaping.
Frontend contract — the PHP ↔ JS runtime boundary.
Changelog

License

MIT — see LICENSE.

alxgarshin / fraym

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