--- title: gusk — Tinkertown | daily.dev description: Tinkertown is a proof-of-concept platform inspired by Val Town that lets PHP developers write lightweight functions that instantly become HTTP endpoints. It... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/v4hnfyu4k twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: gusk — Tinkertown | daily.dev og:description: Tinkertown is a proof-of-concept platform inspired by Val Town that lets PHP developers write lightweight functions that instantly become HTTP endpoints. It... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/v4hnfyu4k og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/V4HNfYU4K.png og:image:alt: Post cover image 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. # gusk — Tinkertown **[Laravel Dev](https://daily.dev/sources/laraveldev)** · [@danielpetrica](https://daily.dev/danielpetrica) · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Tinkertown is a proof-of-concept platform inspired by Val Town that lets PHP developers write lightweight functions that instantly become HTTP endpoints. It uses nikic/php-parser to transform single-file PHP snippets into full Laravel controllers by parsing the AST and extracting use statements, variables, helper functions, and request handlers. The current implementation writes controllers locally, but the original vision was to integrate with Laravel Cloud for instant cloud deployment of executable PHP snippets. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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