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Vicus
=====

[](#vicus)

A Roman neighborhood / It takes a village.

Description
-----------

[](#description)

Built on silex and symfony based components to build a decoupled, flexible and easy to follow framework.

Vicus is a thin layer over an upgraded silex install. It was designed to meet the needs of small projects that had already very coupled and unstructured code needing to be transitioned into a structured modern codebase. From that it was also used for small projects that needed clean and clear APIs along with a simple way to manage and define clean urls. It is currently running a few commercial projects (ones with 300k monthly users), a few personal projects and a side project.

The hope for vicus now is to provide help on getting a site running quickly without having to commit to a complicated robust framework like symfony.

This uses a container, event emitters / listeners and exception handlers.

Install
-------

[](#install)

```
"require": {
    "opensourcerefinery/vicus": "1.0.*",
},

```

`Please use the Vicus Planimetria repo to get started`

### front controller (app.php / index.php)

[](#front-controller-appphp--indexphp)

```
$app = new \Vicus\Application($container);
$app->run();
```

Versions
--------

[](#versions)

#### 1.1.0

[](#110)

- Underlying yml2pimple code no longer requires the container to be passed. now adding &container as a argument in the services.yml will include it.

#### 1.0.0

[](#100)

- License was added

License
-------

[](#license)

Vicus is licensed under the MIT license.

\[TODO\]
--------

[](#todo)

- Exception handling
- sub request
- document code flow
- clean up commented code
- lots and lots more
- refactor config parameter to be part of service file

###  Health Score

34

—

LowBetter than 75% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity22

Limited adoption so far

Community17

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity65

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 79.1% 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 ~120 days

Total

10

Last Release

2480d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3827287?v=4)[Tom Ford](/maintainers/tomfordweb)[@tomfordweb](https://github.com/tomfordweb)

---

Top Contributors

[![dc-mkoert](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/62149338?v=4)](https://github.com/dc-mkoert "dc-mkoert (34 commits)")[![mkoert](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/307702?v=4)](https://github.com/mkoert "mkoert (7 commits)")[![tomfordweb](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3827287?v=4)](https://github.com/tomfordweb "tomfordweb (2 commits)")

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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