What does Java, Python, Ruby,… have in common that PHP doesn’t? They are general purpose languages while PHP is primarily designed for web development! That said, it means you can use PHP as a framework, but should you? What are the consequences of going that way? In this session, we are going to investigate the building blocks of frameworks (Routing, MVC, Dependency Injection,…) leveraging features that PHP provides natively and how a project can be realised with PHP as the only framework while respecting principles like: “Don’t reinvent the wheel”, KISS, DRY, YAGNI, …