substancephp / http

v0.7.1 2026-08-30 20:35 UTC

Requires

• php: >=8.4
• laminas/laminas-diactoros: ^3.8
• laminas/laminas-escaper: ^2.18
• laminas/laminas-httphandlerrunner: ^2.13
• nikic/php-parser: ^5.0
• psr/container: ^2.0
• psr/http-factory: ^1.1
• psr/http-server-handler: ^1.0
• psr/http-server-middleware: ^1.0
• psr/log: ^3.0
• substancephp/container: ^0.6.2

Requires (Dev)

• ext-xdebug: *
• friendsofphp/php-cs-fixer: ^3.95
• phpstan/phpstan: ^2.1
• phpunit/phpunit: ^12.1

MIT

• Matthew Harvey

• http
• router

Published on Packagist.org on 2026-08-30 20:36 UTC

README

Overview

substancephp/http is a library for building web applications in PHP. It supports rendering both JSON and HTML.

This is a work in progress and is not ready for general use. There are regularly breaking changes from version to version.

Philosophy

This project embraces:

• Modern PHP
• PSR standards
• Filepath based routing
• Inversion of control
• Static analysis

This project steers away from:

• Compilation steps (e.g. no template compilation)
• Controller classes

Getting started

TODO

Table of contents

• Templating
• Static analysis: catching unescaped output

The following feature docs are planned but not yet written:

• Routing (TODO)
• Actions (TODO)
• Middleware (TODO)
• Application setup (TODO)
• Requests and parameters (TODO)
• Responses and content types (TODO)
• Error handling (TODO)