description FuelPHP Overview
FuelPHP is an open-source web application framework written in PHP. It follows the Model-View-Controller pattern and includes support for routing, database access, input handling, authentication, and templating, while also offering a Hierarchical Model-View-Controller structure. It is intended for developers maintaining or building PHP applications who want an integrated framework rather than a collection of unrelated libraries.
help FuelPHP FAQ
Is FuelPHP still maintained, and should I start a new project with it?
Development has largely gone quiet — the last significant activity was the 1.x line (1.8/1.9-era releases around the late 2010s). For new PHP work, most developers now choose Laravel or Symfony, which have vastly larger ecosystems.
What is HMVC in FuelPHP?
It stands for Hierarchical Model-View-Controller: controllers can make internal sub-requests to other controllers and embed their output, rather than everything routing through a single front controller. FuelPHP was one of the first PHP frameworks to build this in natively.
Who created FuelPHP and when was it released?
It grew out of dissatisfaction with CodeIgniter around 2010, driven by developers including Dan Horrigan, Phil Sturgeon and Jelmer Schreuder, with version 1.0 arriving in 2011. Many of its creators came from the CodeIgniter community.
What is the Oil command-line tool in FuelPHP?
Oil is FuelPHP's CLI utility for code generation and scaffolding — creating models, migrations and controllers, and running tasks and tests. It's conceptually similar to Rails generators or Laravel's Artisan.
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