As you probably know, when it comes to code (both in and out of work) I’m a Ruby and Rails guy. It’s not necessary to go into much detail “why”: the expressiveness of Ruby and the dynamism and speed of development in Rails are big wins for me.

But it’s not always possible – or practical – to knock out Rails applications for every task, and right now, I need to deploy something in PHP. Something very simple, that doesn’t warrant the deployment overheads of Rails (which we’re all aware of, right?)

Refusing to get caught up in WordPress if at all possible (not going into that again, either), I set out to look for a nice, well-documented, lightweight PHP web framework.

Oh dear.