Minz

Minz is yet another PHP 8.2+ framework. It has no big ambitions and it is designed with my personal needs in mind.

What I like in Minz is:

• I know the code perfectly (I wrote it);
• it's powerful enough for my needs;
• it has a relative small size;
• it grows ONLY when I need it;
• it's easy to perform integration tests;
• it provides a common interface for both Web and CLI requests;
• it has very few dependencies (only one at the moment, i.e. PHPMailer);
• I learnt a LOT by coding it and it was quite fun.

Install

You should use Composer to install Minz.

Run:

$ composer require flus/minz

Then, in your code:

<?php

require '/path/to/vendor/autoload.php';

Guide

• Getting started: setup a project
• An overview of Minz classes

You'll find more documentation directly in the source files.

Contributing

I'm not intended to develop features that I have no uses (sorry!) That being said, forks are very welcome and I would be happy to link to yours if it brings value over my own codebase.

However, I'll be glad to accept patches for bugs and security flaws.

See the documentation to develop Minz.

Minz in the real world

Today, I use Minz in several projects:

• Flus: a feed aggregator and social bookmarking tool;
• flus.fr: the website of the Web service I provide for Flus;
• taust: a monitoring system easy to setup (provided as a proof of concept);
• Webubbub: a simple WebSub hub.

Last question: should you use Minz?

Probably not for your own projects. Minz was designed for my needs.

However, because I tried to keep the codebase away from too many levels of abstraction, it can help you to learn how a framework works. I think Minz can be great for educational purposes.

License

Minz is licensed under AGPL 3.