Loom73
A clear foundation for building PHP applications.
Loom73 is a lightweight application blueprint built around explicit conventions, reusable components and architectural patterns woven from years of real-world development experience.
Not a framework to learn.
A foundation to build on.
Why Loom73?
Every application starts by rebuilding many of the same foundations.
Loom73 starts from a practical question.
“What if the recurring parts were already solved without forcing the rest of the application into a framework?”
A solid structure
grants freedom
to build
Loom73 is organized around a small number of clearly defined responsibilities.
Convention, not cage
Woodframe
Blueprint structure, configuration, shared utilities and registries.
Beam
Persistence primitives, database access and query results.
Heddle
Authentication, sessions, roles and abilities.
Yarn
Asset management, ownership, slots and visibility.
Ledger
User accountability and audit trail.
Weave
Application orchestration, controllers and API delivery.
Shuttle
Installation, maintenance and CLI tooling.
Straightforward routing
URL maps automatically to controllers and methods. Simple, predictable, readable.
A small MVC
The Controller orchestrates. The Model handles persistence. The View renders. The Template assembles.
SQL when clearer
No forced ORM.
Explicit SQL is welcome and enforced.
Built to be extended
Loom73 provides the foundation.
Your application becomes its own thing.
Technical Snapshot
Built with modern PHP and native extensions.
phpdotenv
PHPMailer
Vanilla JS.
Only what you write.
Modern CSS.
No runtime CSS libraries.
Small footprint.
Maximum control.
Start with the decisions
that should not need
to be made again.
Loom73 collects the recurring decisions that should not need
to be reconsidered at the beginning of every project.