NexusPHP Documentation
Introduction
Welcome to NexusPHP! NexusPHP is a modern, dependency-free PHP framework designed for high performance, strict typing, and developer happiness. Built natively for PHP 8.2+, it draws inspiration from the elegance of frameworks like Laravel while maintaining a strictly zero-dependency architecture.
Our philosophy is simple: provide a robust, enterprise-grade toolkit without the overhead of massive dependency trees. We believe that a framework should be transparent, lightning-fast, and enjoyable to use. Whether you are building a high-throughput JSON API, a robust command-line application, or a full-stack web application, NexusPHP offers a beautiful, fluent API to help you build powerful applications with confidence.
Key Features
- Zero Dependencies: NexusPHP is completely self-contained out of the box. No third-party packages, no bloat—just pure, heavily optimized PHP code.
- Modern PHP 8.2+: Built from the ground up for modern PHP, taking full advantage of strict typing, attributes, enumerations, and readonly properties.
- Powerful Dependency Injection: A lightweight, PSR-11 compatible Service Container with support for auto-wiring, transient, scoped, and singleton lifetimes.
- Eloquent-Style ORM: A flexible, high-performance ActiveRecord-style Model engine featuring dynamic properties, dirty state tracking, and comprehensive relationship support (HasOne, HasMany, BelongsTo, BelongsToMany).
- Advanced Routing: An intuitive routing engine that makes defining application endpoints a breeze, featuring route groups, middleware pipelines, and RESTful resource routing.
- Robust Security: Built-in, zero-configuration protection with CSRF middleware, dynamic Security Headers (CSP), robust password hashing, rate limiting, and a dual-guard Authentication system supporting both Stateful Sessions and Stateless JWTs.
- Comprehensive Validation: A deeply integrated validation engine that supports complex nested dot-notation, rule registries, and declarative validation using PHP 8 Attributes.
- Rich Support Utilities: A vast array of helper classes to make development easier, including fluent Collections, comprehensive String and Array manipulation, and intuitive HTTP and Mail clients.
Documentation Index
The following sections will guide you through all aspects of building applications with NexusPHP. These guides reflect the exact capabilities of the current framework implementation:
- Getting Started
- Installation & Configuration
- Directory Structure
- Architecture Concepts
- Request Lifecycle
- Service Container
- The Basics
- Routing
- Middleware
- Controllers
- Requests & Responses
- Views
- Database & ORM
- Database Connections
- Query Builder
- Entity Query Builder
- Migrations & Seeding
- Models & Relationships
- Security
- Authentication (Session & JWT)
- CSRF Protection
- Encryption & Hashing
- Rate Limiting
- Digging Deeper
- Validation & Data Binding
- Collections
- Global Helpers
- HTTP Client
- Queues & Jobs
- Cache
- Events & Broadcasting
- Nexus Console (CLI)