I wanted to improve my PHP skills so I researched and taught myself how to build a PHP framework myself, without composer or any third party libraries. This was

I wanted to improve my PHP skills so I researched and taught myself how to build a PHP framework myself, without composer or any third party libraries. This was a while ago so it was for PHP5 and I used CodeIgnitor and CakePHP as my inspirations because that was what was chosen in the previous places I had worked at so I was familiar with them. I enjoyed the process and I learned a lot. I encourage people to build their own framework without composer as a learning experience if they're looking to level up their PHP knowledge. I plan on going through it again from scratch but following modern standards: PHP7, PHP-FIG, strict_types