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choiz/chz
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A lightweight and easy to use PHP Framework. MVC skeleton. Easy to understand and setup, fully personalizable.

07PHP

Since Dec 9Pushed 3y ago1 watchersCompare

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ChZ
===

[](#chz)

\[DEPRECATED\]

A smart, lightweight and easy to use PHP MVC skeleton. Easy to understand and to setup, fully personalizable.

This framework use: HTML5, CSS, Javascript, Grunt, PHPUnit, jshint, csslint and minifiers. Also you have a public folder with a robot.txt and opensearch.xml (add your favicon and apple-touch-icon-\* in this folder).

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

PHP 5 >= 5.4.0

Contributing
------------

[](#contributing)

All issues or pull requests must be submitted through GitHub.

- To report an issue or a feature request, please use [GitHub Issues](https://github.com/ChoiZ/ChZ/issues).
- To make a pull request, please create a new branch for each feature or issue.

ChangeLog
---------

[](#changelog)

- 2014-08-31 - Add composer.json (Version 1.0.0)
- 2014-08-04 - Update PDO class (Version 0.0.8)
- 2014-07-31 - Add grunt-phpunit (Version 0.0.7)
- 2014-07-31 - Add grunt-phplint (Version 0.0.6)
- 2014-07-29 - Add route (Version 0.0.5)
- 2014-07-28 - Add tests (Version 0.0.4)
- 2014-07-27 - Add grunt configuration (Version 0.0.3)
- 2014-07-25 - Add namespaces (Version 0.0.2)
- 2014-07-24 - First commit (Version 0.0.1)

###  Health Score

14

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LowBetter than 1% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity4

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity24

Early-stage or recently created project

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/198672?v=4)[François LASSERRE](/maintainers/ChoiZ)[@ChoiZ](https://github.com/ChoiZ)

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Top Contributors

[![ChoiZ](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/198672?v=4)](https://github.com/ChoiZ "ChoiZ (1 commits)")

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