webrium/core

A lightweight set of PHP utility classes for common web tasks: routing, HTTP requests and headers, sessions, validation, file uploads, JWT, and hashing.

5.0.3 2026-06-28 07:38 UTC

Requires

• php: ^8.1

Requires (Dev)

• phpunit/phpunit: ^9.6

MIT

• benjamin-khalife

README

Webrium Core

The Lightweight Engine for Modern PHP Applications

Fast · Modular · Elegant

webrium.dev · Documentation · GitHub

🌟 Overview

Webrium Core is a high-performance PHP component library designed to simplify web development. While it serves as the backbone of the Webrium Framework, it is built to be completely standalone — drop it into any PHP project and use only what you need.

It provides routing, controllers, requests/responses, sessions, validation, file uploads, an HTTP client, JWT, hashing, events, filesystem helpers, localization, and a unified error handler — with no required dependencies beyond PHP itself.

🚀 Quick Start

1. Installation

composer require webrium/core

2. Basic Setup (index.php)

<?php
require_once __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

use Webrium\App;
use Webrium\Route;

App::initialize(__DIR__);

Route::get('/', fn() => "Welcome to Webrium Core! 🚀");

App::run();

Then run:

php -S 127.0.0.1:8000 index.php

📚 Documentation

The complete documentation for Webrium Core lives at webrium.dev/docs/v5/core. It covers every component the package ships with:

• Routing — defining routes, groups, middleware, named routes, typed parameters
• Controllers — class structure, boot() / teardown() lifecycle hooks
• Requests & Responses — reading input, sending responses, headers, CORS, redirects
• Sessions — sessions, flash messages, validation errors, old input
• Validation — fluent input validation
• File Uploads — secure uploads with safe defaults
• HTTP Client — calling external APIs
• JWT — issuing and verifying signed tokens
• Hashing — passwords, HMACs, tokens, UUIDs
• Events — publish/subscribe system
• Filesystem — File and Directory utilities
• Localization — file-based translations
• Error Handling — unified handling of errors, exceptions, and fatal shutdowns
• Helper Functions — the complete reference of global helpers

The same documentation is also available as plain Markdown in the webrium/docs repository.

Part of the Webrium Ecosystem

Webrium Core is one of four packages that make up the full Webrium Framework:

• webrium/core — this package
• webrium/foxdb — query builder, ORM, migrations, seeders
• webrium/view — Blade-compatible templating engine with hybrid static caching
• webrium/console — the webrium CLI toolkit

Each is independently usable, except webrium/console which is framework-coupled.

License

Webrium Core is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.