Installation

Requirements

• PHP 8.2 or higher
• Composer (for dependency management)
• PDO extension (for database access)

Using the PHAR (Recommended)

The easiest way to get started is with the standalone PHAR executable:

# Download the latest release
wget https://github.com/tusk-framework/tusk/releases/latest/download/tusk.phar

# Make it executable (Linux/Mac)
chmod +x tusk.phar

# Move to your PATH (optional)
sudo mv tusk.phar /usr/local/bin/tusk

Now you can use tusk (or php tusk.phar) globally.

Via Composer

For development or contributing to the framework:

# Clone the monorepo
git clone https://github.com/tusk-framework/tusk.git
cd tusk

# Install dependencies
composer install

Verify Installation

# Check version
php tusk.phar

# Output:
# 🐘 Tusk Framework v0.1.0
# Available commands:
#   init [name]  - Create a new Tusk project
#   run [file]   - Run a Tusk application

Next Steps

Continue to Quick Start to create your first project.