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weareathlon/silla.io
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The Silla.IO Application Development Framework.

1.0.0(8y ago)26563[17 issues](https://github.com/WeAreAthlon/silla.io/issues)GPL-3.0PHPPHP &gt;=5.3.7

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Silla.IO - PHP Application Development Framework
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[](#sillaio---php-application-development-framework)

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 by [Athlon](http://weareathlon.com)

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### Reference

[](#reference)

- **Code API Reference:**
- **Demo of the CMS app:**
    - *Credentials*
        - **email:** **
        - **password:** *DemoDemo1!*

---

### Overview

[](#overview)

*Silla.IO* is a lightweight PHP application development framework based on the *MVC* software architecture pattern. The framework includes *CMS Application* to provide assistance building custom content management systems.

The code base features *Model-View-Controller* pattern with additional support for:

- `Configuration Per Environment`
- `ORM` layer for persistent data management
- `Template rendering` engine support for output management
- `URL Routing`
- `Base\Entity` for consolidation of `CRUD` operations
- `Mailer API`
- `Cache API`
- `Session API`
- `Crypt API`
- `i18n`
- `CLI` task manager
- ... *any many more*

---

### Server Software Requirements

[](#server-software-requirements)

- **Operating System**
    - *Type*: `*nix`, `Windows`
- **Web Server**
    - *Type:* `Apache`, `nginx` or compatible(`PHP built-in web server`)
    - *Modules:* (*below are `Apache` module names. Each of them has equivalent for `nginx`*)
        - `mod_rewrite` - *in order to have custom(pretty) URLs*
        - `mod_env` - *in order to easily switch configuration environments*
- **PHP**
    - *Type:* `Standard` (*SAPI - Apache Handler or CLI/CGI/FCGI*)
    - *Version:* `5.3.7` (*or newer, compatible up to `7.2.x`*)
    - *Configuration:*
        - Runtime change enabled via `ini_set()`
        - *Extensions*
            - `mbstring` - *Provides multi-byte specific string functions that help dealing with multi-byte encodings.*
            - `PDO`, `PDO_mysql`, `mysqli`, `SQLite3` (*depends on on the configured database adapter*)
            - `GD` - *in order to work with media*
- **Database**
    - *Type:* `MySQL` (*depends on on the configured database adapter*)
    - *Version:* `5` (*or newer, recommended `5.6+`*)
- **File System**
    - *Type:* Standard file system(*all `PHP` file functions should work as expected*)
    - *Permissions:* `Writable` directories:
        - *`/temp`*
        - *`/public`*
- **Package Managers**
    - *`Composer`* - *PHP package manager*

###  Health Score

29

—

LowBetter than 60% of packages

Maintenance7

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity19

Limited adoption so far

Community20

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity62

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 83.8% 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

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

3133d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/e69fde724cef8dd61b43a98ec5d732921c9708086aac77e69115e46e32f0b094?d=identicon)[pnikolov](/maintainers/pnikolov)

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Top Contributors

[![pnikolov](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/319266?v=4)](https://github.com/pnikolov "pnikolov (243 commits)")[![sandio](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3699023?v=4)](https://github.com/sandio "sandio (23 commits)")[![athlon-plamen](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1374156?v=4)](https://github.com/athlon-plamen "athlon-plamen (10 commits)")[![rozalia](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1941761?v=4)](https://github.com/rozalia "rozalia (6 commits)")[![Sarbinski](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/7511649?v=4)](https://github.com/Sarbinski "Sarbinski (5 commits)")[![kalins](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5123588?v=4)](https://github.com/kalins "kalins (2 commits)")[![krisarsov](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/745724?v=4)](https://github.com/krisarsov "krisarsov (1 commits)")

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Tags

cmsmvc-frameworkphpphp-frameworkframeworkcmssilla.io

###  Code Quality

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