micro PHP manifesto

I am a PHP developer

I am not a Zend Framework or Symfony or CakePHP developer

I think PHP is complicated enough

I like building small things

I like building small things with simple purposes

I like to make things that solve problems

I like building small things that work together to solve larger problems

I want less code, not more

I want to write less code, not more

I want to manage less code, not more

I want to support less code, not more

I need to justify every piece of code I add to a project

I like simple, readable code

I want to write code that is easily understood

I want code that is easily verifiable

I think Ed Finkler hit the nail on the head with this. This is exactly why I like frameworks that are simple enough that I can understand all aspects. Not some monstrosity that it takes someone more than a few hours to understand how the application is built.