Looking for a set of tools/objects to start a website in PHP

Looking for a good set of base objects to start a website up in PHP. I am not looking for links to CakePHP as I am not interested in frameworks. I am looking for a set of objects that would come handy to start off with for new projects...

Objects such as:

• Loggers
• MySQL wrapper object
• etc

Basically a "Start with this", I remember seeing a nice collection of objects and code on Digg, but I can't find it again. There were user objects (for logging in), fsck editor built in, etc...

From stackoverflow

• MySQL wrapper object

  Use PDO.

  I am not interested in frameworks

  Well, you are. You are not looking for a tightly coupled, full stack framework perhaps.

  You might find one or more of the following useful:

  • PEAR
  • Zend Framework
  • ezComponents

  They are all very loosely coupled frameworks, where you can pick and match as you need it.

  Mike Curry : hmm, I've been looking at Zend... seems it is exactly what I want. I've been against frameworks all this time... and they are exactly what I wanted... in this case, ignorance is NOT bliss, lol. Thanks :)

• Well, there's a bunch of digg related code found here.

  http://github.com/digg/

  I also don't understand why you don't want to use a framework, but want to use all the components that make a framework. That didn't make much sense to me.

  I would look into the Zend Framework. Before you scream at me for recommending it, a lot of the components are modular which means you can take the bits you need.

  http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/

  PS : Although Zend Framework has "framework" in the title, a lot of people see it as a collection of classes. So check it out :)

• Frameworks by their very definition are a set of objects that come in handy when starting a new project.

  PDO can give you database abstraction without resorting to third-party libraries. Templating can be accomplished with the alternate syntax (foreach():) and short tags (<?= $var ?>). You can do it all yourself if you want, just keep the docs up and get crackin' redefining that wheel.

• I can certainly recommend Zend Framework for this purpose. As a glue framework you can use as many or as few of the components as you like, with or without the MVC.