Incredibly lightweight. Powerful enough.

An open-source PHP framework that can help you build successful projects better. It's also easy to install and extend. Just like you'd expect from a modern framework.

Bear Framework provides all the basic tools you need to develop a modern website or application. You've got routing, data storage, addons, logs, assets helpers and few more useful tools.

Simple and powerful

Bear Framework is one of the easiest PHP frameworks you can find. See for yourself. Here is a simple app that outputs 'Hi'.

<?php
require 'path/to/vendor/autoload.php';
use BearFramework\App;

$app = new App();

$app->routes->add('/', function() {
    return new App\Response('Hi');
});

$app->run();

Download and install

• Install via Composer

composer require bearframework/bearframework

or the following command to create a sleketon application

composer create-project bearframework/app [my-app-name]

• Download a zip/phar file

Download the latest release from our GitHub page.

Documentation

Documentation is available at http://bearframework.com/docs/.

How to run the tests

After installing the dependencies with Composer, you will have a local version of PHPUnit. You can run the tests like this: vendor/bin/phpunit tests/.

License

Bear Framework is open-source software. It's free to use under the MIT license. See the license file for more information.

Let's talk

Follow and contact Bear Framework team at bearframework.com, Twitter (@bearframework) and Facebook.