Show HN: PhpEZ – A tiny PHP framework for shared LAMP hosting

qcfe — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 18:09:43 +0000

I needed to make a tiny webapp backend to upload to shared LAMP hosting (they still exist, and I think they're fun despite us being well beyond 2005), but I couldn't face waiting for FTP to sync down however thousands files Laravel or similar frameworks need.

So I made a tiny PHP framework that gets packaged into a single file.

I'm using it for my own shady purposes, but I decided to put it on GitHub in case anyone else finds the approach useful.

It has typed request/response handling, filesystem-based routing, object serialization, database models/schema generation, and a little schema alignment tool. It has no Composer dependencies.

It's very much a tiny thing, but if anyone wants to try it and tell me where it breaks, I'd appreciate it :)

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Show HN: PhpEZ – A tiny PHP framework for shared LAMP hosting