diff --git a/.github/workflows/main.yml b/.github/workflows/main.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..35fbaac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/main.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+name: REST API v6 CI
+on:
+  push:
+  pull_request:
+    types: [opened, synchronize, reopened]
+jobs:
+  sonarqube:
+    name: SonarQube
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0  # Shallow clones should be disabled for a better relevancy of analysis
+      - name: SonarQube Scan
+        uses: SonarSource/sonarqube-scan-action@v5
+        env:
+          SONAR_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.SONAR_TOKEN }}
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 6ffe3aa..4bb08c8 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
-/cache/
-/config/development/
+.composer
+.bash_history
+vendor
diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
index e9a74a6..cec7c50 100644
--- a/LICENSE
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 MIT License
 
-Copyright (c) 2025 The Phalcon PHP Framework
+Copyright (c) 2012-present The Phalcon PHP Framework
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..725d63d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+{
+    "name": "phalcon/rest-api",
+    "type": "library",
+    "description": "Sample REST API application implemented with Phalcon v6",
+    "keywords": [
+        "phalcon",
+        "framework",
+        "sample app",
+        "rest-api",
+        "rest",
+        "api"
+    ],
+    "homepage": "https://phalcon.io",
+    "license": "MIT",
+    "authors": [
+        {
+            "name": "Contributors",
+            "homepage": "https://github.com/phalcon/rest-api/graphs/contributors"
+        }
+    ],
+    "require": {
+        "php": ">=8.2",
+        "ext-json": "*",
+        "ext-mbstring": "*",
+        "robmorgan/phinx": "^0.16.10",
+        "vlucas/phpdotenv": "^5.6"
+    },
+    "require-dev": {
+        "pds/composer-script-names": "^1.0",
+        "pds/skeleton": "*",
+        "phpstan/phpstan": "^2.1",
+        "phpunit/phpunit": "^10.5",
+        "squizlabs/php_codesniffer": "^3.13"
+    },
+    "config": {
+        "preferred-install": "dist",
+        "sort-packages": true,
+        "optimize-autoloader": true
+    },
+    "replace": {
+        "symfony/polyfill-php80": "*",
+        "symfony/polyfill-php81": "*",
+        "symfony/polyfill-php82": "*",
+        "symfony/polyfill-ctype": "*",
+        "symfony/polyfill-mbstring": "*"
+    },
+    "scripts": {
+        "analyze": "phpstan analyse -c phpstan.neon --memory-limit=512M",
+        "cs": "vendor/bin/phpcs --standard=phpcs.xml",
+        "cs-fix": "vendor/bin/phpcbf --standard=phpcs.xml",
+        "test-unit": "vendor/bin/phpunit -c phpunit.xml.dist --display-all-issues"
+    }
+}
diff --git a/phpcs.xml b/phpcs.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d06467d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/phpcs.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<ruleset name="Phalcon-REST-v6">
+    <description>Phalcon REST API v6 Coding Standards</description>
+    <arg value="--colors"/>
+    <arg value="s"/>
+    <arg value="p"/>
+    <rule ref="PSR12">
+        <exclude name="PSR2.Methods.MethodDeclaration.Underscore"/>
+    </rule>
+    <file>src</file>
+    <file>tests/Unit</file>
+</ruleset>
diff --git a/phpstan.neon b/phpstan.neon
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..776ccd8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/phpstan.neon
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+parameters:
+    level: max
+    paths:
+        - src
diff --git a/phpunit.php b/phpunit.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..39cfdb6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/phpunit.php
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+<?php
+
+ini_set('xdebug.mode', 'coverage');
+
+error_reporting(E_ALL);
+
+$autoloader = __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';
+
+if (! file_exists($autoloader)) {
+    echo "Composer autoloader not found: $autoloader" . PHP_EOL;
+    echo "Please issue 'composer install' and try again." . PHP_EOL;
+    exit(1);
+}
+
+require_once $autoloader;
diff --git a/phpunit.xml.dist b/phpunit.xml.dist
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3aa1401
--- /dev/null
+++ b/phpunit.xml.dist
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<phpunit xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+         xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="vendor/phpunit/phpunit/phpunit.xsd"
+         bootstrap="./phpunit.php"
+         cacheDirectory="tests/_output/.phpunit.result.cache"
+         colors="true"
+         processIsolation="true"
+>
+    <testsuites>
+        <testsuite name="unit and mysql tests">
+            <directory>./tests/Unit/</directory>
+        </testsuite>
+    </testsuites>
+    <source>
+        <include>
+            <directory suffix=".php">./src</directory>
+        </include>
+    </source>
+</phpunit>
diff --git a/sonar-project.properties b/sonar-project.properties
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f3412ca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sonar-project.properties
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+sonar.projectKey=niden-code_phalcon-rest-api-v6
+sonar.organization=niden
+
+
+# This is the name and version displayed in the SonarCloud UI.
+#sonar.projectName=phalcon-rest-api-v6
+#sonar.projectVersion=1.0
+
+
+# Path is relative to the sonar-project.properties file. Replace "\" by "/" on Windows.
+#sonar.sources=.
+
+# Encoding of the source code. Default is default system encoding
+#sonar.sourceEncoding=UTF-8
diff --git a/tests/_output/.gitkeep b/tests/_output/.gitkeep
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29