Spiral is a high-performance, full-stack PHP framework designed for long-running applications. It combines a resident-memory application kernel with the RoadRunner application server, which handles services such as HTTP, queues, gRPC and WebSockets.
The framework is built from more than 60 PSR-compatible components and supports a range of application architectures, including MVC, HMVC, CQRS, RPC, queue-oriented services and command-line applications.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Resident-memory PHP application kernel with protection against memory leaks.
- RoadRunner integration for high-performance application serving.
- Support for HTTP, HTTPS, HTTP/2, FastCGI, gRPC and WebSockets.
- Queue support for AMQP, Amazon SQS, Beanstalk and Kafka.
- Background worker management and queue supervision.
- PSR-3, PSR-4, PSR-7, PSR-11, PSR-12, PSR-14, PSR-15, PSR-16 and PSR-17 compatibility.
- Cycle ORM integration with automatic database migrations.
- Support for MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, SQLite and Microsoft SQL Server.
- Authentication, role-based access control, validation and encryption.
- Encrypted cookies, signed sessions and CSRF protection.
- Event broadcasting and publish-subscribe messaging.
- Scaffolding, code generation and static-analysis-based class discovery.
- Built-in routing, caching, logging, mail, sessions, storage and telemetry components.
- Stempler template engine with support for custom HTML components.
- Can also be used with the Twig template engine.
- Bridges for RoadRunner, Cycle ORM, Temporal and other supporting technologies.
Website: github.com/spiral
Support:
Developer: Spiral Scout
License: MIT License
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