If you want something that's nothing like that, you may enjoy this:
Re:Running a Modern Startup on PHP
by chrisohara on Friday April 15, 2011 @02:13AM
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or mine: https://github.com/chriso/klein.php
https://github.com/bgoldman/Paraglide/blob/master/paraglide....
The lack of tests somewhat seals the deal.