LiteRoute PHP Starter Kit — Product Overview

Who should buy this? PHP developers who want a minimal framework without Laravel's footprint — agencies shipping small apps, API backends, admin tools, and learners exploring MVC-style PHP. Not intended for non-developers seeking a visual theme.

How F3 works technically

Bootstrap — index.php loads lib/base.php, creating the Base singleton ($f3).
Hive — Configuration and runtime values live in a key-value hive ($f3->set() / get()), including INI from config.ini.
Routing — Routes bind HTTP patterns to PHP callbacks; $f3->run() dispatches the request.
Views — The View class renders .htm templates with PHP-style tags and includes.
Data layer — Optional DB\SQL, DB\Jig, and DB\Mongo mappers provide ORM-lite persistence.

What works immediately

Step	Action
1	`cd package && php -S localhost:8080 index.php`
2	Visit `/` — framework welcome + PHP module checklist
3	Visit `/demo` — Brokie landing template rendered by F3
4	Visit `/api/health` — JSON status for smoke tests

To launch live

PHP 8.0+ hosting with Apache (mod_rewrite) or Nginx + PHP-FPM
Upload package/ contents to your document root
Route all requests to index.php (see README-BROKIE.txt)
Set DEBUG=0 in config.ini for production

Package contents

package/
  index.php       Front controller
  routes.php      Sample routes (edit here)
  config.ini      Framework settings
  lib/            fatfree-core (GPL-3.0)
  ui/             Templates + Brokie landing demo
  .htaccess       Apache rewrites
  LICENSE         GPL terms + attribution
  README-BROKIE.txt

License (GPL-3.0)

The bundled upstream micro-framework (bcosca/F3) is licensed under GNU GPL v3. Commercial use is allowed under GPL terms. If you distribute modified framework code, GPL copyleft applies. See package/LICENSE and lib/GPL-3.0.txt. Copyright: Christian Rossell (bcosca) and contributors.