PHPUNCHAINED
Bring runtime awareness to PHP.
An orchestration-aware execution environment bringing ownership, lifecycles, and structured concurrency directly to the PHP process.
Positioning & Architecture
Runtime awareness for modern PHP
Traditional PHP starts from scratch on every request, wasting CPU cycles on bootstrapping. Nexphant runs a persistent event-loop that holds resources and memory warm.
PHP was built for a shared-nothing architecture, which made it simple but slow. Nexphant unchains the PHP process, moving from transient scripts to a persistent, stateful application runtime.
The Bootstrapping Tax
Every query boots the framework from scratch, spending 10-30ms parsing configs and initializing services.
Persistent Runtime Loop
Workers boot once, keeping connections warm and routing requests directly through concurrent Fibers.
VISUAL ARCHITECTURE
Three Engines. One Runtime.
Nexphant separates transport handling, runtime orchestration, and lifecycle ownership into cooperative persistent execution layers for modern PHP applications.
Transport Engine
Runtime Engine
Lifecycle Engine
Persistent Runtime Architecture
Nexphant isolates transport handling, runtime orchestration, and lifecycle ownership into dedicated persistent execution layers designed for modern stateful PHP systems.
Transport Engine
Handles sockets, HTTP, WebSocket, SSE, streaming protocols, connection upgrades, and transport dispatching.
Runtime Engine
Controls workers, fibers, queues, schedulers, timers, cooperative execution, and runtime orchestration.
Lifecycle Engine
Tracks ownership, cancellation, cleanup, graceful draining, persistent state, and runtime resource lifecycles.
Persistent Workers
Workers stay warm in memory, bypassing standard script startup cycles.
Cooperative Fibers
Non-blocking concurrency driven directly by an in-process scheduler.
Lifecycle Ownership
Automatic context tracking prevents memory leaks and stale sockets.
Developer Onboarding
Familiar PHP syntax.
Runtime-native power.
Write standard PHP, then run it through a persistent runtime built for workers, fibers, queues, and lifecycle-aware execution.
<?php
use Nexphant\App;
$app = App::create();
$app->get('/', fn () => [
'message' => 'Hello Nexphant',
]);
$app->listen(8080);composer create-project nexphant/nexphant my-appcomposer run devStart with routes, workers, queues, and runtime services.
Load Test Benchmark
Transparent Performance Stats
Benchmarks are shown separately for static JSON baseline and SQLite WAL workload.
Static JSON measures raw transport/runtime response overhead.
Benchmark Context
benchmarks/k6-test.jsBenchmark transparency
Hardware: AMD Ryzen 5 5600H, 16GB RAM, NVMe SSD, CachyOS (Linux 7.0).
Reproducibility Guide & Evidence →ARCHITECTURE MAP
Composable Runtime Ecosystem
Nexphant separates transport handling, runtime orchestration, lifecycle ownership, and infrastructure tooling into modular persistent execution layers.
Persistent Runtime Platform
Nexphant composes transport handling, cooperative runtime orchestration, lifecycle ownership, and infrastructure services into a unified persistent execution platform for PHP.
Transport Layer
Sockets, HTTP, WebSocket, SSE, streaming dispatch.
Runtime Layer
Workers, fibers, queues, schedulers, orchestration.
Lifecycle Layer
Ownership tracking, cleanup, cancellation, graceful draining.
INSPIRED BY THE ECOSYSTEM
Built on the shoulders of async PHP pioneers.
Nexphant learns from the projects that pushed PHP beyond the traditional request-response lifecycle from event loops and fibers to persistent workers, servers, and runtime bridges.
“Different ideas. Shared direction. A faster, persistent future for PHP.”
Join the community
Nexphant is open-source. Follow the development, contribute ideas, or help shape the runtime layer for modern PHP.