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gregwar/plankton
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Plankton: a pedagogical PHP pico-framework

v1.0.11(11y ago)58608MITPHPPHP >=5.3.0

Since Dec 14Pushed 11y ago7 watchersCompare

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Plankton
========

[](#plankton)

This is a PHP pico framework (42 lines for the core, 100 including examples)

Features
--------

[](#features)

It features:

- An amazing route generator, with the `path()` and `asset()` functions
- A tremendous templating system with the `render()` function
- Splendid architecture of controllers
- External powerful configuration
- It example suggests a swaggy way to handle your database
- Packaged with bootstrap

All that with bleeding edge performances

It also comes with some examples page, an index, a 404, a a page greeting you and a page listing films from database

It doesn't uses any third-party library, everything is in this repository, you can quickly read all its source code.

It also features a generic autoloader, so you can write your own classes and easily access it.

For more information, have a look at [the blog post about Plankton](http://gregwar.com/posts/plankton-a-php-pedagocical-42-lines-framework)

Documentation
-------------

[](#documentation)

- RTFC = Read The Fucking Code

### Controllers

[](#controllers)

RTFC

### Configuration

[](#configuration)

RTFC

### Database

[](#database)

RTFC

### Templating

[](#templating)

RTFC

### Router

[](#router)

RTFC

LICENCE
-------

[](#licence)

This repository is under Beer-Ware licence

###  Health Score

34

—

LowBetter than 77% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity23

Limited adoption so far

Community16

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity65

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 96.5% 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 ~26 days

Recently: every ~57 days

Total

11

Last Release

4271d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/ff07f4a09665104ac6c46056b35fd78a3ae78e55e6f7f31f1545654a75d8d6e5?d=identicon)[Gregwar](/maintainers/Gregwar)

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Top Contributors

[![Gregwar](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/367022?v=4)](https://github.com/Gregwar "Gregwar (55 commits)")[![pein0119](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3726601?v=4)](https://github.com/pein0119 "pein0119 (1 commits)")[![ShadowedMists](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/7303559?v=4)](https://github.com/ShadowedMists "ShadowedMists (1 commits)")

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