Leaf is a PHP framework that helps you create clean, simple but powerful web apps and APIs quickly and easily. Leaf introduces a cleaner and much simpler structure to the PHP language while maintaining it"s flexibility. With a simple structure and a shallow learning curve, it"s an excellent way to rapidly build powerful and high performant web apps and APIs.

Leaf 3 brings a much cleaner, faster and simpler workflow to your apps. Powered by an ecosystem of powerful modules with zero setup and it"s ease of use, Leaf now allows you to tackle complexities no matter the scale.

Install Leaf 3:

You can create a Leaf 3 app with the Leaf CLI

leaf create <project-name> --v3 --basic

<project-name> is your project name

You can also use Composer to install Leaf 3 in your project quickly.

composer require leafs/leaf v3.0-beta

Install Leaf 2:

Since leaf 3 is still in beta, you might want to install the stable leaf 2 instead. You can do this with Leaf CLI or composer.

leaf create <project-name> --basic

Or with composer

composer require leafs/leaf

This is a simple demonstration of Leaf"s simplicity. After installing Leaf, create an index.php file.

<?php

require __DIR__ . "/vendor/autoload.php";

// Base example
app()->get("/", function () {
  response()->json([
    "message" => "Welcome!"
  ]);
});

app()->run();

If you use the Leaf CLI, this is already done for you 🚀.

You may quickly test this using the built-in PHP server:

php -S localhost:8000

You can view the full documentation here

Project	Status	Description
[leaf]		Create websites and APIs quickly
[leafmvc]		An MVC wrapper for leaf (for general development)
[leafapi]		An MVC wrapper for leaf geared towards API development
[skeleton]		Leaf boilerplate for rapid development
[leaf-ui]		A PHP library for building user interfaces
[cli]		CLI for interacting with your leaf apps

Project	Status	Description
[aloe]		Smart console helper for leaf mvc, leaf api and skeleton
[router]		Default router for leaf php
[experiments]		collection of experimental modules
[mail]		Mailing made easy with leaf
[auth]		Simple but powerful authentication system for your apps
[form]		Form processes and validation
[password]		Password encryption/validation/hashing in one box
[db-old]		Leaf Db from v1 (still maintained)
[db]		Leaf Db from v2 (actively maintained)
[session]		PHP sessions made simple
[cookie]		Cookie management without the tears
[logger]		leaf logger module
[fs]		Awesome filesystem operations + file uploads
[date]		PHP dates for humans
[bareui]		Dead simple templating engine with no compilation (blazing speed)
[blade]		Laravel blade templating port for leaf
[veins]		Leaf veins templating engine
[http]		Http operations made simple (request, response, ...)
[anchor]		Basic security tools
[mvc-core]		Core MVC tools powering our MVC wrappers
[aloe]		Overpowered cli for our MVC wrappers
[fetch]		HTTP requests made simple
[redis]		Redis module

• Twitter
• Join the forum
• Chat on discord

• Leaf has a very easy to understand documentation which contains information on all operations in Leaf.
• You can also check out our youtube channel which has video tutorials on different topics
• We are also working on codelabs which will bring hands-on tutorials you can follow and contribute to.

We are glad to have you. All contributions are welcome! To get started, familiarize yourself with our contribution guide and you"ll be ready to make your first pull request 🚀.

To report a security vulnerability, you can reach out to @mychidarko or @leafphp on twitter. We will coordinate the fix and eventually commit the solution in this project.

Michael Darko	Ademílson F. Tonato	Tobias Herber	Pjotr Savitski
Pablo Ferreiro	jess	Sergey Romanenko

Your cash contributions go a long way to help us make Leaf even better for you. You can sponsor Leaf and any of our packages on open collective or check the contribution page for a list of ways to contribute.

And to all our existing cash/code contributors, we love you all ❤️

Aaron Smith

Peter Bogner

Vano

• Leaf Docs
• Leaf MVC
• Leaf API
• Leaf CLI
• Aloe CLI