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Kipchak by Mamluk

Overview

Kipchak is an API Development Kit (ADK) built on Slim Framework, designed for rapid API development. Written in PHP, it combines years of production experience handling thousands of concurrent requests.

Quick Start

To see Kipchak in action, visit our starter repository.

Features in the Community Edition

Enterprise Features (Paid)

• Valkey support for caching
• JWT authentication / authorisation with a public key
• Binary only or security verified containers
• RBAC Management
• Personal Access Token Management
• Rate limting by IP address / user / API key
• OAuth 2 Client with simplified token management for upstream APIs

To learn more about Kipchak Enterprise Edition, please reach out via https://mamluk.net/contact.

Additional Open Source Components you can use with Kipchak

Key Differences between versions 0.x and versions 1.x

• Session management has not been used even once in a 0.x implementation as it's always best to keep APIs stateless so it has been removed
• Zircote Swagger PHP has been added for generating OpenAPI documentation from PHP Attributes
• Doctrine has now been upgraded to the stable version 3.5+. This may result in breaking changes, especially for migrations and if you were using / extending some core Doctrine capabilities without specifying return types.

Technical Stack

• Framework: Built on Slim Framework
• Memory Footprint: Lightweight compared to Symfony/Laravel
• Integration: Compatible with Symfony/Laravel libraries
• PHP 8.3+

Credits

For complete dependencies, see our composer.json.

About

• Company: Mamluk
• Name Origin: Named after the Turkic Kipchak family which founded the Mamluk Sultanate of Cairo in 1250
• Documentation: Available at Kipchak Starter