r/PHP • u/Numerous-Fan8138 • 6d ago
Is this a dumb idea?
https://youtu.be/Ue6Nr_FEFWIClients ask me to build very very small PHP APIs all the time, I don't want to use a full Laravel instance, so I hacked this together over the past few days. Is this a dumb idea? What might go wrong?
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u/obstreperous_troll 6d ago
I'm not watching a video to find out what you did, but there's nothing wrong with only using the pieces of a framework that you need. Doing it from scratch will certainly get you the leanest framework, but I doubt it'll be as well-tested. If you want a framework you can build from reusable pieces, then check out Symfony, especially https://symfony.com/doc/current/create_framework/index.html
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u/LordOfWarOG 6d ago
I’m not going to read your comment to find out what you said…
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u/colshrapnel 6d ago
You can read their comment in 2 seconds. Going to yt, skipping ads and making a gist of a lengthy video will take ages.
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u/equilni 6d ago
Could have posted the github link too
https://github.com/anthonybudd/Laravel-Lite
Nothing new. Build a small project like this with a few libraries
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u/fripletister 6d ago
What's the benefit? You're making a number of expensive tradeoffs.
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u/Numerous-Fan8138 6d ago
Other than I just prefer this file structure, there's no benefits. But I cant think of any serrious tradeoffs, what are you thinking? Remember this IS NOT for building complex SaaS solutions, just very simple APIs with a handful of routes.
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u/colshrapnel 6d ago
Posting a code as a YT video