Let’s Shape the Future of PHP 🧡 ​

Dear #leafers!

For years, Leaf has been quietly pushing PHP forward. We’ve helped developers:

• Ship apps faster with cleaner, simpler code.

• Skip the heavy abstraction and focus on building.

• Join a community that believes in making PHP fun again.

Leaf has grown from a small idea into a framework powering apps, businesses, and side projects around the world. And this is just the beginning.

Now, we’re preparing to take Leaf to the next level. In the coming year, we will:

• Deliver long-awaited features like real-time APIs, better deployments, more 3rd party integrations, and auto API docs.

• Build a sustainable ecosystem around Leaf, with docs and tutorials, plus community tools.

• Keep everything Leaf free and independent, so anyone can build with it.

But to make this possible, we need you.

Your support means Leaf’s maintainers can dedicate focused time to building Leaf, fixing what breaks, and improving what works. It means we don’t burn out. And it means Leaf stays healthy for the long run.

With love and gratitude,

Michael from Leaf

How You Can Support ​

🧡 Sponsor on GitHub or OpenCollective

Back Leaf through GitHub Sponsors or OpenCollective. Every contribution, one-time or recurring, fuels development, community events, and new features.

🧡 Crypto Support Prefer crypto? Send USDT (TRC20) to: TK6d2w4EqSDsf2xB2SLcEkfUt3vxADtFmp

What Your Support Powers ​

Supporting Leaf doesn't just fund the framework, it keeps a whole family of tools free, actively maintained, and moving forward:

Alchemy

QA from one config

Tests, code style, refactors, static analysis + CI pipelines for any PHP app, described in one alchemy.yml.

Seedling

Console applications

A tiny framework for building CLI tools with the Leaf MVC experience: commands, prompts, and packaging.

Fetch

HTTP client

fetch() for PHP. The request API you already know from JavaScript, in any PHP app, Leaf or not.

Auth

Authentication

Login, registration, roles, permissions and subscriptions for any PHP app. Sessions or JWT, one API.

Db

Database

Fluent queries and raw SQL without a heavy database layer. MariaDB, MySQL, Postgres, SQLite, SQL Server.

Kata

Design systems for AI

Compile your design system into a language AI can build with, so generated UIs come out looking like yours.

Hana JS

Frontend framework

Simple, lightweight React alternative for building user interfaces, from the same team.

25+ modules, one install away

Auth, databases, queues, mail, billing and more: grab exactly what you need, nothing else.

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Businesses Using Leaf ​

Sponsoring Leaf gives you great exposure to all PHP developers around the world through our website and GitHub project READMEs. In addition, supporting OSS improves the reputation of your brand, and also ensures that Leaf stays healthy and actively maintained.

You can join our Premium Sponsorship 🍁 tier which gives you the following perks:

• Your logo on our README on GitHub and our website
• A personalized shoutout on our social media channels & newsletters
• Mention in our monthly progress reports
• Mention in every release announcement
• Direct priority support from the Leaf team.

Sponsoring Leaf is both a thank-you and an investment in the PHP ecosystem.

Our Sponsors ​

We are grateful to all our sponsors, both past and present for their generous support 🧡

And our previous sponsors: