phpEZ

A lean, elegant, zero-boilerplate PHP framework for building REST APIs.

Be sure to have a look at the example project for a complete, working API built with PHPEz, and to the YOU MUST NOT section below before writing your own code.

PHPEz is built to run on plain, basic LAMP stacks — the kind that still powers most shared hosting in 2026. No Composer, no build step, no PHP extensions beyond the defaults: just upload phpez.php alongside your code and it works.

Tired of massive frameworks with thousands of files, confusing conventions, and tons of boilerplate? PHPEz eliminates all that noise through smart design patterns and automatic reflection-based code generation .

If you need less than the full framework, you can cherry-pick individual files from sys/ and include them in your project, using require_once('sys/boot.php') to bootstrap the framework, touching it up not to include the other files automatically.

You can find a complete working example in example/ about user management, including login, registration, and logout functionality. Here's a quick overview of the steps to get started.

Behind a reverse proxy (Cloudflare, Nginx, Apache, ...)? The real client IP isn't in REMOTE_ADDR anymore.