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envms/osseus
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A modern lightweight framework to integrate with legacy code and applications

v0.4.3(5y ago)71.7k1GPL-3.0PHPCI failing

Since May 16Pushed 5y ago4 watchersCompare

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Osseus
Upgrade Your Legacy PHP Code
====================================

[](#osseusupgrade-your-legacy-php-code)

Osseus is a light and tiny PHP framework/library that integrates with any application. It provides both a RESTful API and a more "traditional" service to support incremental code improvements.

Osseus can be used as a full-featured application framework, or simply as a utility library to help your application scale. Its goal is to be flexible and impartial to code and database structures.

### Features

[](#features)

- light and fast router with a smart URI parser
- built-in security tools to validate and sanitize data
- interfaces with [FluentPDO](https://github.com/envms/fluentpdo) to provide quick and seamless database interactions
- an internationalization template system to implement new languages quickly and easily
- classic MVC system with some small additions

### Contributions

[](#contributions)

Contributors are very welcome to help test and improve Osseus

### Usage

[](#usage)

To get started, all you need is a little setup:

```
// add necessary classes
use Envms\Osseus\Dev\Debug;
use Envms\Osseus\Parse\Uri;
use Envms\Osseus\Router\Route;
use Envms\Osseus\Server\Environment;

// set your environment
$environment = Environment::instance(Environment::DEVELOPMENT); // the current environment
$debug = Debug::instance(Environment::TESTING); // the maximum environment to show debug statements

// optional but recommended - parse the URI and route to the index controller
$uri = new Uri($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
$router = new Route('TestApp');
$router->go($uri);
```

The router will direct the `$uri` to your application's controller and action, and you're on your way!

#### The current version is beta-2 (v0.4.3)

[](#the-current-version-is-beta-2-v043)

###  Health Score

31

—

LowBetter than 68% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity21

Limited adoption so far

Community12

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity59

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 95% 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.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~99 days

Recently: every ~181 days

Total

10

Last Release

2026d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

[![cbornhoft](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/10536543?v=4)](https://github.com/cbornhoft "cbornhoft (133 commits)")[![sanabria91](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/24279172?v=4)](https://github.com/sanabria91 "sanabria91 (7 commits)")

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Tags

apifluentpdoframeworklegacylibraryphptoolkitapiframeworklibraryfluentapplicationrestfulrefactorlegacy

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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