globus-studio/fatfree-core

A powerful yet easy-to-use PHP micro-framework designed to help you build dynamic and robust Web applications - fast!

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Package info

github.com/MADEVAL/fat-free-framework

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Requires

  • php: >=7.2

GPL-3.0 c2338e989b0e9cf8099a44a130fe28c046ec94e5

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Last update: 2026-04-25 18:34:18 UTC

README

Fork of Fat-Free Framework core, kept compatible with PHP 8.x including 8.5.

For the upstream vanilla version use bcosca/fatfree-core.

Differences from upstream

PHP 8.5 compatibility

Change Reason
Preview::c(): dropped setlocale(LC_NUMERIC, 0) PHP 8 made int second arg a TypeError. PHP 8 path is locale-independent; PHP 7 fallback uses string '0'.
Web::_curl(): version check for CURLOPT_PROTOCOLS libcurl 7.85+ deprecated CURLPROTO_* masks. Uses CURLOPT_PROTOCOLS_STR when available, falls back otherwise.
Removed web/pingback.php Depended on xmlrpc_* functions removed in PHP 8.0+. The xmlrpc extension is no longer maintained.
Removed cache backends xcache, wincache, memcache All dead on modern PHP. Remaining: apc/apcu, memcached, redis, folder.

Tests

  • tests/ with PHPUnit 11, split into unit and integration.
  • DSNs configured via <env> in phpunit.xml.
  • MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, SQLite covered. Integration tests skip cleanly if a service is unreachable.
  • Tests excluded from production autoload via exclude-from-classmap, loaded via PSR-4 Tests\\.

Dependencies

  • Minimum PHP raised from 7.2 to 7.4.
  • mongodb/mongodb ^2.2 added to require-dev for \DB\Mongo (uses MongoDB\Client).

Backward compatibility

Public API unchanged. Application code keeps working.

Install

composer require globus-studio/fatfree-core
require 'vendor/autoload.php';
$f3 = \Base::instance();

Without Composer:

$f3 = require 'lib/base.php';

URL rewrite required, see routing-engine.

Run tests

composer install
vendor/bin/phpunit
vendor/bin/phpunit --testsuite unit
vendor/bin/phpunit --testsuite integration

DB connection vars: DB_MYSQL_DSN, DB_MYSQL_USER, DB_MYSQL_PASS, DB_MYSQL_NAME, same prefix for DB_PGSQL_*, plus DB_MONGO_URI and DB_MONGO_NAME.

Built on this core

Atomic Framework is a full-featured PHP framework built on top of this core. It adds a structured application layer with: authentication (bcrypt, OAuth 2.0, Telegram, rate limiting, impersonation), MySQL/Redis/Memcached via ConnectionManager, timestamp-based migrations, Redis/DB queue with retry and monitoring, POSIX cron scheduler, multi-driver cache with cascade fallback, parameterized middleware, hierarchical event dispatcher, WordPress-compatible hook/filter layer, SMTP mailer with DNS deliverability scoring, i18n with URL prefixing, 45+ CLI commands, NaCl/libsodium encryption, WebSocket server (Workerman + Redis pub/sub), and a plugin lifecycle system. Requires PHP >= 8.1.

Atomic-Framework-Application is the official application skeleton/template for Atomic Framework.

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