Sorry, but I'll have to disagree. Frameworks are great. Yep, sometimes a simple one will be enough, but you'll still need one.
Yep, it's quite simple to do GCI by hand... But you'll want all your pages to look the same, so you'll need to add some template functionality to your code. Also, you'll certainly need to handle data, so add some data validation there. You'll also benefit from some better abstraction over your database, and connection pooling... and while we are talking about finite resources, you'll want to limit the number of threads Apache launches.
There is certainly more. I'll certainly not remember all the troubles of reinventing that wheel, as I don't do it since the 90's.
Yep, it's quite simple to do GCI by hand... But you'll want all your pages to look the same, so you'll need to add some template functionality to your code. Also, you'll certainly need to handle data, so add some data validation there. You'll also benefit from some better abstraction over your database, and connection pooling... and while we are talking about finite resources, you'll want to limit the number of threads Apache launches.
There is certainly more. I'll certainly not remember all the troubles of reinventing that wheel, as I don't do it since the 90's.