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toby/toby
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Put 'ol Toby in your pipe and smoke it. A micro web framework similar to Sinatra that makes PHP fun again.

v0.2(11y ago)8330[2 issues](https://github.com/tamagokun/toby/issues)MITPHPPHP >=5.3.0

Since Dec 20Pushed 11y ago2 watchersCompare

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[Old Toby](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAZpjWZRNAc)
======================================================

[](#old-toby)

*Making PHP development fun again.*

The finest Leaf in the Southfarthing is also a web framework similar to [Sinatra](http://www.sinatrarb.com/).

Built on [Rack'em](https://github.com/tamagokun/rackem).

Setting Up
----------

[](#setting-up)

Toby works best with [Composer](http://getcomposer.org/). Add it to your `composer.json`

```
{
  "require": {
	  "toby/toby": "dev-master"
	},
	"minimum-stability": "dev"
}
```

```
$ composer install
```

Hello World
-----------

[](#hello-world)

```

```

```
$ vendor/bin/rackem
$ open http://localhost:9393
```

[Check out the manual](http://ripeworks.com/toby)
-------------------------------------------------

[](#check-out-the-manual)

What we have so far
-------------------

[](#what-we-have-so-far)

- routing (`DELETE`,`GET`,`HEAD`,`OPTIONS`,`PATCH`,`POST`,`PUT`)
- route matching (`$app->get("/hello/:name");`)
- render templates and layouts
    - currently supported: `php`,`mustache`,`markdown`,`haml`
- conditions and filters
- redirection
- halting
- passing routes
- error handling (`error` `not_found` `halt(500)`)
- logging via Rackem\\Logger
- settings
- configure blocks (global and per environment)
- completely Rack complient (using Rack'em)
- serving static files
- handling file uploads
- handling sessions (`$app->enable("sessions");`)
- flash messaging (`$app->flash("error","Gah! Something happened!");`)

What needs doing
----------------

[](#what-needs-doing)

- support for more templating engines. (twig, jade, etc.)

###  Health Score

25

—

LowBetter than 35% of packages

Maintenance15

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity17

Limited adoption so far

Community8

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity49

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 ~264 days

Total

2

Last Release

4313d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/dd7b1fe83cb5efed95c6a9388cdbfed237a4c8100986aae44a07d87df45e227b?d=identicon)[tamagokun](/maintainers/tamagokun)

---

Top Contributors

[![tamagokun](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/487333?v=4)](https://github.com/tamagokun "tamagokun (73 commits)")

---

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