---
title: "Modern PHP Without a Framework"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/modern-php-without-a-framework-nvp9umrvq
source_url: https://kevinsmith.io/modern-php-without-a-framework/
type: article
source: "Community Picks"
published: 2023-10-14T23:51:52.490Z
updated: 2023-12-07T12:02:45.284Z
tags: ["webdev", "php"]
reading_time: 15
upvotes: 67
comments: 7
language: en
---

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# Modern PHP Without a Framework

**[Community Picks](https://daily.dev/sources/community)** · 15 min read · 67 upvotes · 7 comments

## Summary

Explore the benefits of working without a PHP framework, including gaining a deeper understanding of how the language works. Learn about autoloading, dependency injection, front controllers, middleware, routing, and properly sending responses in PHP.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@fabooy961** · 1 upvotes

> for education I agree, but when you wanna be productive and build real stuff you would use laravel anyway.
>
> Change my mind ;)

**@itsjavi** · 1 upvotes

> That's ok for experimental or very simple projects.
> But for production we will still need something like Symfony or Laravel, which are basically industry standards.
>
> Sadly the PHP core hasn't evolved much in terms of adoption of more modern standards for handling requests or routing... until then we are stuck with frameworks for serious projects.

**@gplanchat** · 1 upvotes

> I can relate on this. In some micro-services projects, I needed only PHP-DI or fast-route or reactphp or some standalone Symfony components.
> And it ok to do this.

**@ryugenxd** · 0 upvotes

> realy ?

**@nh2\_amine** · 0 upvotes

> Very simple and easy to understand the concepts under the hood of micro-frameworks

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