# core

**Repository Path**: coboke/flightphp

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: core
- **Description**: No description available
- **Primary Language**: PHP
- **License**: MIT
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

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- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2026-08-08
- **Last Updated**: 2026-08-08

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## README



# Flight

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## What is Flight?

Flight is a fast, simple, extensible framework for PHP. Flight enables you to quickly and easily build RESTful web applications. It allows you to build your application quickly without the sacrificed speed and flexibility.

Key features of Flight include:
*   **Zero Dependencies:** Flight does not require any external libraries.
*   **Fast:** It is one of the fastest PHP frameworks available.
*   **Flexible:** It has a powerful routing system and supports extensible middleware and filters.

## Basic Usage

First install it with Composer:

```bash
composer require flightphp/core
```

or you can download a zip of this repo. Then you would have a basic `index.php` file like the following:

```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::start();
```

## Is it Fast?

Yes! Flight is fast. It is one of the fastest PHP frameworks available. You can see all the benchmarks at [TechEmpower](https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r18&hw=ph&test=frameworks)

See the benchmark below with some other popular PHP frameworks. This is measured in requests processed within the same timeframe. 

| Framework | Plaintext Requests| JSON Requests|
| --------- | ------------ | ------------ |
| Flight      | 190,421    | 182,491 |
| Yii         | 145,749    | 131,434 |
| Fat-Free    | 139,238	   | 133,952 |
| Slim        | 89,588     | 87,348  |
| Phalcon     | 95,911     | 87,675  |
| Symfony     | 65,053     | 63,237  |
| Lumen	      | 40,572     | 39,700  |
| Laravel     | 26,657     | 26,901  |
| CodeIgniter | 20,628     | 19,901  |

## Key Features

Flight is built with a modular architecture to provide everything you need for modern web development:

*   **Core Engine:** A lightweight `Engine` class that acts as the service container and application core.
*   **Routing:** Fast, flexible RESTful routing with support for parameter passing, groups, and aliases.
*   **Middleware:** Powerful before/after filters to intercept and modify the request/response lifecycle.
*   **Request & Response:** Comprehensive `Request` and `Response` classes for handling HTTP data, headers, and content negotiation.
*   **Database Utilities:** Built-in PDO wrappers (`SimplePdo`, `PdoWrapper`) for clean database interactions without needing a heavy ORM.
*   **Event System:** A global `EventDispatcher` for application-wide event handling and decoupling.
*   **Templating:** A `View` class for rendering templates with support for layouts and components.
*   **CLI Tools:** Built-in commands for generating controllers, inspecting routes, and AI integration.

## Skeleton App

You can also install a skeleton app. Go to [flightphp/skeleton](https://github.com/flightphp/skeleton) for instructions on how to get started!

## Documentation

We have our own documentation website that is built with Flight (naturally). Learn more about the framework at [docs.flightphp.com](https://docs.flightphp.com).

## Community

Chat with us on Matrix IRC [#flight-php-framework:matrix.org](https://matrix.to/#/#flight-php-framework:matrix.org)

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## Upgrading From v2

If you have a current project on v2, you should be able to upgrade to v3 with no issues depending on how your project was built. If there are any issues with upgrade, they are documented in the [migrating to v3](https://docs.flightphp.com/learn/migrating-to-v3) documentation page. It is the intention of Flight to maintain longterm stability of the project and to not add rewrites with major version changes.

## Requirements

> [!IMPORTANT]
> 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.

## Roadmap

To see the current and future roadmap for the Flight Framework, visit the [project roadmap](https://github.com/orgs/flightphp/projects/1/views/1)

## License

Flight is released under the [MIT](http://docs.flightphp.com/license) license.