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A secure, fast, and flexible MVC framework for PHP 8.1+, built with simplicity in mind. Laika gives you routing, models, templating, a service container, and a CLI generator — without the overhead of large frameworks like Laravel or Symfony.

✨ Features

🚀 Lightweight core — no bloat, no magic you can't trace back to a file
🛠️ Expressive router — route groups, named routes, typed parameters, pipelines & filters
🗂️ PDO models & schema builder — MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, SQL Server, Oracle, Firebird
🧩 Service container — a Relay static-proxy pattern for clean, testable app services
🔐 Security by default — direct file access denied, CSRF/CORS-ready, optional firewall middleware
🔑 Multi-guard auth — session, cookie, and token guards with Google/Facebook OAuth
🗃️ Sessions & queues — pluggable backends (file/PDO/Redis/Memcached, database/Redis/JSON)
⚙️ Built-in CLI (php laika) — scaffold controllers, models, pipelines, filters, templates, and more
📦 Composer-native — PSR-4 autoloading, each subsystem is its own versioned package

📦 Installation

composer create-project laikait/laika-framework myproject
cd myproject
php laika app:start

Visit http://127.0.0.1:8000 — you should see the default Laika landing page.

See docs/01_getting-started/01_installation.md for requirements and manual setup.

📚 Documentation

Full documentation lives in docs/:

Section	What's covered
Getting Started	Installation, project structure, configuration, CLI
Routing	Routes, groups, named routes, controllers
Pipelines	Pre-controller middleware
Filters	Post-controller middleware
Models & Database	Query builder, schema builder, migrations
Templates	Twig-based view rendering
Services & Relay	The service container / static proxy pattern
Hooks	Event-style hook system
Authentication	Guards, tokens, OAuth
Security (Shield)	Firewall middleware
Sessions	Session backends and API
Queue	Background jobs and workers
Deployment	Apache/nginx, production checklist

🧩 The Laika Ecosystem

laikait/laika-framework is the application skeleton; the actual functionality ships as independently versioned Composer packages under vendor/laikait/:

Package	Purpose
laika-core	Bootstrap, templating, hooks, exceptions, framework glue
laika-route	Router, dispatcher, pipelines & filters
laika-model	PDO query builder & schema builder
laika-relay	Service container & static proxy (`Relay`)
laika-session	File/PDO/Redis/Memcached sessions
laika-auth	Session/cookie/token guards, OAuth
laika-shield	Firewall middleware (rate limiting, IP/country blocking, SQLi/XSS detection)
laika-queue	Background job queue & worker
laika-cli	The `laika` code generator CLI

Each package has its own README with a full API reference — the docs here focus on how they fit together inside an application.

⌨️ CLI Quick Reference

php laika controller:make UserController
php laika model:make User --table=users
php laika pipeline:make Auth
php laika filter:make Log
php laika template:make admin/dashboard

php laika route:list
php laika app:migrate
php laika app:start

Full command reference: docs/01_getting-started/04_cli.md.

🤝 Contributing

Issues and pull requests are welcome on the relevant package repository. For framework-wide changes, open an issue on laikait/laika-framework.

📄 License

MIT — see LICENSE.

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