https://github.com/daniel-samson/teensyphp
🐘Teensy PHP is a micro web framework for rapidly creating REST APIs and hypermedia.
https://github.com/daniel-samson/teensyphp
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🐘Teensy PHP is a micro web framework for rapidly creating REST APIs and hypermedia.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/daniel-samson/teensyphp
- Owner: daniel-samson
- License: mit
- Created: 2019-02-28T11:25:25.000Z (about 7 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-12-29T18:26:44.000Z (3 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2026-01-01T12:33:44.451Z (3 months ago)
- Topics: framework, hypermedia, php, rest
- Language: PHP
- Homepage: http://teensyphp.com/
- Size: 4.59 MB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 0
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
-
Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
Teensy PHP is a micro web framework for rapidly creating REST APIs and hypermedia.
## Project Status
[](https://github.com/daniel-samson/teensyphp/actions/workflows/php.yml)
[](https://codecov.io/gh/daniel-samson/teensyphp)
[](https://www.codefactor.io/repository/github/daniel-samson/teensyphp)
## Features
- Lightweight Framework
- Simple Router
- PHP Templating Engine
- Middleware Support
- Easy to inject or replace functionality (its just some small functions)
- env Config Utility
- Database Connection Manager Utility
- ArrayAccessImplementation, Crud Traits
## Examples
```php
$_GET[':name']])));
});
});
```
```php
"Hello World!"]));
});
// Example JSON body (echo server)
route(method(POST), url_path("/echo"), function () {
$body = json_in();
render(201, json_out($body));
});
});
```
```php
'Hello World']));
} else {
render(200, html_out(template(app_root() . "/templates/pages/home.php", [])));
}
}
}
```
## Requirements
- PHP 8.0+
- Composer
## Documentation
Please see the [wiki](https://github.com/daniel-samson/teensyphp/wiki) for more information on how to rapidly create apps with teensyphp.
## Creating a new project
### Install teensyphp command line tool
```shell
composer global require daniel-samson/teensyphp
```
### Create a new project
```shell
teensyphp new project-name
cd project-name
composer install
```
### Start buit in web server
```shell
composer dev
```
- open web route [http://localhost:8000](http://localhost:8000)
- open api route [http://localhost:8000/api](http://localhost:8000/api)
## Update Teensyphp
```shell
composer global update
```
## Background
This project was an exploration of Object Oriented Programming vs Procedural / Structure Programming. At the time (2012), composer autoloading only worked for classes.
I asked the question "What if functions were first class like they are in JS/Haskel?". At the time, classes seem to take up more overhead eg. more memory and cpu time. However, functions didn't seem to have this penalty. This was partly to do with how the autoloader worked (which improved over time). I also was wanting to change how projects that were OO worked. I didn't like facades. I liked having simple higher order functions that i could replace with my own implementations.
TeensyPHP explored what it would be like to just use functions. however, as it grew, I needed to manage database connections. So i introduced entities, a environment config manager and a database manager.
Everything in TeensyPHP is completely replaceable!