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photon/photon
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Photon is a high performance micro PHP framework.

v2.4.0(6y ago)203.4k5[1 issues](https://github.com/photon/photon/issues)12LGPL-2.1PHPPHP ~5.3 | ~7.0

Since Jan 8Pushed 6y ago7 watchersCompare

[ Source](https://github.com/photon/photon)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/photon/photon)[ Docs](http://www.photon-project.com/)[ RSS](/packages/photon-photon/feed)WikiDiscussions develop Synced today

READMEChangelog (1)Dependencies (3)Versions (58)Used By (12)

Photon - The High Speed PHP Framework
=====================================

[](#photon---the-high-speed-php-framework)

[![Build Status](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/43ca61e05b5855ce4e5299fa8528840551643dd37b838a565d596ac8fdd1331b/68747470733a2f2f7472617669732d63692e6f72672f70686f746f6e2f70686f746f6e2e7376673f6272616e63683d646576656c6f70)](https://travis-ci.org/photon/photon)

PHP Versions
------------

[](#php-versions)

- 5.6 is supported and tested under travis
- 7.0, 7.1 is supported and tested under travis

Available extensions (Particules)
---------------------------------

[](#available-extensions-particules)

Each extensions have their own release cycle which is not synchronized with the Photon core.

### Sessions

[](#sessions)

- [MongoDB backend for session storage](https://github.com/photon/session-mongodb)
- [Memcached backend for session storage](https://github.com/photon/session-memcached)

### APIs

[](#apis)

- [Base class for Rest API with CORs](https://github.com/photon/api-json)

### Template

[](#template)

- [Template extension to filter Markdown text to HTML](https://github.com/photon/template-markdown)

### Emails

[](#emails)

- [Wrapper to use swift mail with photon templates](https://github.com/photon/email-swift)

### Log

[](#log)

- [Syslog backend for photon](https://github.com/photon/log-syslog)

### Various utils

[](#various-utils)

- [Wrapper for bshaffer oauth server](https://github.com/photon/oauth2-server)
- [A worker to send large content without filling the RAM](https://github.com/photon/template-markdown)
- [Various useful tools for MongoDB](https://github.com/photon/utils-mongodb)

For up-to-date information
--------------------------

[](#for-up-to-date-information)

- Website :
- Mailing-list :
- Changelog :

###  Health Score

38

—

LowBetter than 83% of packages

Maintenance19

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity27

Limited adoption so far

Community26

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity72

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 89.8% 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 ~31 days

Recently: every ~21 days

Total

56

Last Release

2480d ago

Major Versions

0.5.14 → 1.0.02015-12-05

1.1.3 → v2.0.02017-04-06

PHP version history (3 changes)0.3.0PHP >=5.3.0

1.0.2PHP ~5.3

v2.0.0PHP ~5.3 | ~7.0

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/32f98ddde8bc7b4f6fadce6a4030a77dc6dfd8e08d8e5b122ab4cc70232f6341?d=identicon)[delkia](/maintainers/delkia)

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Top Contributors

[![wysman](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1042272?v=4)](https://github.com/wysman "wysman (307 commits)")[![piouPiouM](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/22614?v=4)](https://github.com/piouPiouM "piouPiouM (18 commits)")[![deweller](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/51414?v=4)](https://github.com/deweller "deweller (11 commits)")[![daloic](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/31305575?v=4)](https://github.com/daloic "daloic (6 commits)")

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Tags

photonmongrel2zmq

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

Code StylePHP\_CodeSniffer

### Embed Badge

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