Helium:
A PHP Framework

Helium is a light-weight MVC framework, written in PHP, that is designed to be painless to install, simple to use, and highly extensible and scalable. It is built for a standard LAMP stack and comes coupled with installation scripts designed to handle the framework's package dependencies and configuration.

The author of this particular mass of code is an engineer named Bryan Healey.

The genesis of this framework is rooted in utility. I wanted to have an easy to deploy and easy to develop development core that wasn't bloated with a litany of extras that I didn't want or need. So, instead of taking an existing framework and stripping it down, I decided to write a framework from the group up. This also allowed me to take care in how it is engineered, maintaining speed and efficiency as much as possible.

Anyone! Even those without extensive web engineering backgrounds can use it, so long as they have a modest understanding of PHP. Out of the box, it comes ready for deployment, and the basic method for creating new pages and services couldn't be simpler: Create a route, create a controller, and create a template file. Done.