--- title: Empathy: a PHP micro-framework. | daily.dev description: Empathy is a PHP micro-MVC framework developed as an open-source Platform-as-a-service experiment, featuring integrated support for various technologies within... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/empathy-a-php-micro-framework--d1i5cfgva twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Empathy: a PHP micro-framework. | daily.dev og:description: Empathy is a PHP micro-MVC framework developed as an open-source Platform-as-a-service experiment, featuring integrated support for various technologies within... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/empathy-a-php-micro-framework--d1i5cfgva og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/D1i5CFGva.png og:image:alt: Empathy: a PHP micro-framework. og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Empathy: a PHP micro-framework. **[PHP Dev](https://daily.dev/sources/phpdev)** · [@damienseguy](https://daily.dev/damienseguy) · 11 upvotes · 17 comments ## Summary Empathy is a PHP micro-MVC framework developed as an open-source Platform-as-a-service experiment, featuring integrated support for various technologies within its official development environment. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@devmandan** · 4 upvotes > I feel like I stepped back into 2008 looking at that website. And Smarty? I've not heard that mentioned since....... uh........ 2008. **@mikejw** · 3 upvotes > Thank you @damienseguy for sharing! I am the creator of Empathy! > > If anyone has any questions about anything, I've just enabled native commenting on the website. Or reach me any other way! > > Cheers! **@nasso** · 0 upvotes > Why on earth would you choose this over the other billion, already established frameworks? --- Tags: [#open-source](https://daily.dev/tags/open-source), [#php](https://daily.dev/tags/php) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/empathy-a-php-micro-framework--d1i5cfgva) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https://daily.dev/posts/empathy-a-php-micro-framework--d1i5cfgva","headline":"Empathy: a PHP micro-framework.","text":"Shared: No title","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/empathy-a-php-micro-framework--d1i5cfgva","datePublished":"2025-04-27T12:22:49.429Z","dateModified":"2025-04-27T12:28:46.961Z","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Damien seguy","url":"https://daily.dev/damienseguy","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--nPbjKqol--/f_auto,q_auto/v1698422671/avatars/avatar_G85JhYcDxAg024Omc8Rlp","description":"PHP developer passionate about deep language knowledge, testing, static analysis, and sustainable it","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Exakat","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--ibtl6fze--/f_auto/v1749051132/companies/exakat"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"EndorseAction"},"userInteractionCount":38990}},"image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VDukGCjf--/f_auto/v1722860399/public/Placeholder%2002","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":11},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":17}],"sharedContent":{"@type":"WebPage","url":"https://api.daily.dev/r/m2DNmj0SB"},"comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"I feel like I stepped back into 2008 looking at that website. 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