Getting started

This guide walks you through installing one or more raxos/* packages into a PHP project.

Prerequisites

• PHP 8.5 or newer.
• Composer 2.
• The extensions a package needs. Most of Core relies on common extensions such as ext-json, ext-mbstring and ext-intl. Each package lists its own requirements on its installation page.

Install your first package

Every package is published on Packagist under the raxos/ vendor. Add the one you need with Composer.

Composer

composer require raxos/http

composer.json

{
    "require": {
        "raxos/http": "^2.3"
    }
}

Then autoload as usual and start using the classes.

<?php
declare(strict_types=1);

use Raxos\Http\HttpResponse;

require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

HttpResponse::create()
    ->withJson(['hello' => 'world'])
    ->send();

A typical web stack

For an HTTP API you usually combine a few packages: the HTTP layer, the router, and often the database.

composer require raxos/http raxos/router raxos/database

From there, add oauth2 for authentication, rate-limit to protect endpoints, and openapi to generate a specification from your controllers.

Stability

The packages set minimum-stability to dev with prefer-stable enabled, so tagged releases are preferred. If you depend on unreleased changes, mirror that setting in your own composer.json.

Next steps

• Browse the full list on the Packages overview.
• Read the Conventions to understand the shared code style.
• Jump straight into a package from the Packages menu.