PlatoPHP

PlatoPHP is a lightweight service framework for PHP 8. It covers php-fpm HTTP, resident single-request workers, socket server dispatch, and multiprocess CLI workloads. It is installed as a Composer library and contains framework capabilities only: no administration UI, domain models, application skeleton, or sample site.

Core capabilities

• HTTP routing, middleware, request parsing, immutable replies, and uploads
• MySQL, ClickHouse, and MongoDB connections, a query builder, migrations, schema builder, and seeders
• Redis, file, Memcached, and in-process caches, plus distributed locks
• Redis list, Redis stream, and Kafka queues with multi-worker consumers
• Console commands, cron scheduling, and foreground process supervision
• A resident server driver contract, connection object, and message-to-controller dispatcher, for websocket and tcp alike
• CSRF, CORS, rate limiting, validation, request signing, and encrypted envelopes
• File storage, templates (Smarty or plain PHP), logs, error handling, events, and data helpers

Runtime model

One process handles one request at a time. Supported environments are php-fpm, forked CLI workers, and resident workers that process requests serially. Request state uses static facades, so coroutine models that execute multiple requests concurrently in one process are not supported.

Process-owned resources are managed by plato\runtime. plato\pool flushes resources before forking and supervises a fixed number of children. Resident entry points establish a clean boundary before each request.

Resident server boundary

This package does not implement an event loop, socket listener, protocol framing, TLS, or worker management. An adapter implements plato\server\driver and passes complete messages to plato\server\dispatcher. Which protocol it speaks is its own choice — websocket is the default, not the limit. The framework owns routing and request state; a separate adapter owns the event loop.

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