FuelPHP is an open-source web application framework written in PHP which implements the HMVC pattern.

[3][4] The FuelPHP project commenced in October 2010,[5] with its major contributors being Harro Verton, Jelmer Schreuder, Dan Horrigan, Philip Sturgeon and Frank de Jonge.

[6] In November 2013,[7] Steve West joined the development team.

Philip Sturgeon and Dan Horrigan had contributed to the CodeIgniter framework.

The framework must provide powerful functionalities, it must be easy to work with, and it should have a lightweight codebase that takes account of community developers' orientations.