What is Flight?

Flight is a fast, simple, extensible framework for PHP. It is quite versatile and can be used for building any kind of web application. It is built with simplicity in mind and is written in a way that is easy to understand and use.

Flight is a great beginner framework for those who are new to PHP and want to learn how to build web applications. It is also a great framework for experienced developers who want more control over their web applications. It is engineered to easily build a RESTful API, a simple web application, or a complex web application.

Quick Start

<?php

// if installed with composer
require 'vendor/autoload.php';
// or if installed manually by zip file
// require 'flight/Flight.php';

Flight::route('/', function() {
  echo 'hello world!';
});

Flight::route('/json', function() {
  Flight::json(['hello' => 'world']);
});

Flight::start();

Simple enough right? Learn more about Flight in the documentation!

Skeleton/Boilerplate App

There is an example app that can help you get started with the Flight Framework. Go to flightphp/skeleton for instructions on how to get started! You can also visit the examples page for inspiration on some of the things you can do with Flight.

Community

We're on Matrix Chat with us at #flight-php-framework:matrix.org.

Contributing

There are two ways you can contribute to Flight:

  1. You can contribute to the core framework by visiting the core repository.
  2. You can contribute to the documentation. This documentation website is hosted on Github. If you notice an error or want to flesh out something better, feel free to correct it and submit a pull request! We try to keep up on things, but updates and language translations are welcome.

Requirements

Flight requires PHP 7.4 or greater.

Note: PHP 7.4 is supported because at the current time of writing (2024) PHP 7.4 is the default version for some LTS Linux distributions. Forcing a move to PHP >8 would cause a lot of heartburn for those users. The framework also supports PHP >8.

License

Flight is released under the MIT license.