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Antimonial Framework

About Antimonial

Note: This repository contains the core code of the Antimonial framework. If you want to build an application using Antimonial, visit the main Antimonial application repository.

Antimonial is a minimal, explicit, and dependency-free PHP MVC framework. It is built under the philosophy that what you read is what runs — providing modern web primitives without magical reflection, hidden containers, or vendor baggage.

Antimonial takes the complexity out of PHP development while keeping the execution lifecycle linear, transparent, and completely typed:

Fast, flexible routing engine supporting static lookups, regex parameters, and route groups.
Fluent SQL query builder with prepared statements and identifier whitelisting for SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.
Blade-style template engine parsed via PHP's native lexer with layout inheritance, directives, and automatic XSS escaping.
Explicit CRUD models without heavy ORM relation guessing.
Form and JSON validation supporting strings, numbers, file uploads, and database existence rules.
Authentication and CSRF security with session-fixation defense and constant-time token verification.
Database migrations with batch rollback tracking.
Zero runtime dependencies with strict declare(strict_types=1) and Level Max static analysis.

Learning Antimonial

Antimonial is designed to be learned in an afternoon. To get started:

Read the complete documentation and guides on the Wiki.
Create a new project with the Antimonial skeleton.

Contributing

Thank you for considering contributing to the Antimonial framework! You can contribute by opening an issue or submitting a pull request.

Before submitting code, please ensure all quality checks pass:

# Run test suite
composer test

# Run static analysis
composer analyse

# Check code formatting
composer lint

Security vulnerabilities

If you discover a security vulnerability within Antimonial, please create a security advisory on GitHub or contact the maintainers. All vulnerabilities will be addressed promptly.

License

The Antimonial framework is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.

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