This is an boilerplate using Silex and the html5 boilerplate http://html5boilerplate.com/ Silex - php microframework http://silex-project.org/ Doctrine DBAL - database abstraction http://www.doctrine-project.org/ Twig - php templating engine http://www.twig-project.org/ simpletest - unit testing for php http://www.simpletest.org/