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mikebirch/anticus
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A lightweight PHP MVC framework for simple websites

0.1.9(3y ago)0621MITPHPPHP >=7.0

Since May 9Pushed 3y ago1 watchersCompare

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Anticus
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[](#anticus)

[![Total Downloads](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/2dd8637b64e13143fe08d52b2fa78aff6e8ffd34bde191bfe6d39dd50e1e2b3d/68747470733a2f2f696d672e736869656c64732e696f2f7061636b61676973742f64742f6d696b6562697263682f616e74696375732e7376673f7374796c653d666c61742d737175617265)](https://packagist.org/packages/mikebirch/anticus)[![PHPStan](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/af448da87e55bac7d375d138c9df7ef5d47f1d6ac14511a2c8f79ba19fa375b4/68747470733a2f2f696d672e736869656c64732e696f2f62616467652f5048505374616e2d6c6576656c253230372d627269676874677265656e2e7376673f7374796c653d666c61742d737175617265)](https://github.com/phpstan/phpstan)

A Lightweight PHP MVC framework based on [php-mvc](https://github.com/daveh/php-mvc) by Dave Hollingworth.

See this in action in the [website skeleton](https://github.com/mikebirch/anticus-app)

###  Health Score

23

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LowBetter than 27% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity8

Limited adoption so far

Community9

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity46

Maturing project, gaining track record

 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.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~101 days

Recently: every ~199 days

Total

9

Last Release

1382d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/bfccfb4934c1e01f7b8a95ea2d5439a7741a52718f5c6bdf2e60bf5c2c9f2caf?d=identicon)[mikebirch](/maintainers/mikebirch)

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Top Contributors

[![mikebirch](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/82635?v=4)](https://github.com/mikebirch "mikebirch (48 commits)")

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Tags

phpframeworkmvc

###  Code Quality

Static AnalysisPHPStan

Type Coverage Yes

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