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zesk/zesk
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The Zesk Application Framework

v0.32.0(7mo ago)33.9k1MITPHPPHP >=8.1

Since Jan 28Pushed 7mo ago1 watchersCompare

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Zesk
====

[](#zesk)

**Zesk Application Framework**: One-button PHP Cloud, Big Data, and Secure Web Applications.

**Zesk is a suite of tools which make writing web applications easy and fast.** Levering Doctrine's **Object Relational Mapping** and Database interfaces, easy command line tool coding, and tons of tools to allow you to write web applications quickly.

It also has a modular interface to all extension via modules, a powerful hook system to allow integration and notifications for events, and an object-oriented architecture to allow for fast development using subclasses.

Strict PHP 8.1 support is planned for 2023 and migration to PHPUnit for all testing and coverage as well as docker testing built-in.

Visit [Zesk.com](https://zesk.com) for up-to-date information. For technical information, read the [docs](./docs/index.md).

Copyright © [Market Acumen, Inc.](https://marketacumen.com/?crsource=zesk-readme) 2022 All Rights Reserved

See [the license to use Zesk](./LICENSE.md). (the MIT license)

History
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[](#history)

Zesk was written primarily by [Market Acumen, Inc.](https://marketacumen.com/?crsource=zesk-readme) and has been in use in commercial products since 2002 and written originally in PHP 4.

Zesk has been refactored a few times and the good ideas were taken out of the original and improved. Inspired over the years by CodeIgniter, Kohana, Zend Framework, Drupal, Wordpress, Laravel, and Symfony, in addition to the work of many talented developers, including [Fabian Potencier](http://fabien.potencier.org/). Currently use [Doctrine](https://www.doctrine-project.org/) for the unerlying database and ORM framework.

###  Health Score

48

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FairBetter than 94% of packages

Maintenance62

Regular maintenance activity

Popularity24

Limited adoption so far

Community10

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity80

Battle-tested with a long release history

 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 ~28 days

Recently: every ~228 days

Total

130

Last Release

235d ago

PHP version history (5 changes)0.6.2PHP >=5.2.0

v0.9.0PHP >=5.4.0

v0.13.2PHP >=5.5.0

v0.30.2PHP >=7.0

v0.31.0rc0PHP >=8.1

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/78ab429ade5701887532b0a12feeeaad91a887ad11c341077533a0ec30fa8a58?d=identicon)[zesk](/maintainers/zesk)

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Top Contributors

[![razzed](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/197812?v=4)](https://github.com/razzed "razzed (2261 commits)")[![matejgleza](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4979665?v=4)](https://github.com/matejgleza "matejgleza (1 commits)")

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Tags

command-linedatabase-schemahooksmvcormphp-frameworkschema-migrationsweb-applicationweb-application-frameworkframeworkapplicationzesk

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

Code StylePHP CS Fixer

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