Slim Framework

Slim is a PHP micro framework that helps you quickly write simple yet powerful web applications and APIs. Slim is easy to use for both beginners and professionals. Slim favors cleanliness over terseness and common cases over edge cases. Its interface is simple, intuitive, and extensively documented — both online and in the code itself. Thank you for choosing the Slim Framework for your next project. I think you're going to love it.

Features

Powerful router
- Standard and custom HTTP methods
- Route parameters with wildcards and conditions
- Route redirect, halt, and pass
- Route middleware
Template rendering with custom views
Flash messages
Secure cookies with AES-256 encryption
HTTP caching
Logging with custom log writers
Error handling and debugging
Middleware and hook architecture
Simple configuration

Getting Started

Install

You may install the Slim Framework with Composer (recommended) or manually.

Read how to install Slim

System Requirements

You need PHP >= 5.3.0. If you use encrypted cookies, you'll also need the mcrypt extension.

Hello World Tutorial

Instantiate a Slim application:

$app = new \Slim\Slim();

Define a HTTP GET route:

$app->get('/hello/:name', function ($name) {
    echo "Hello, $name";
});

Run the Slim application:

$app->run();

Setup your web server

Apache

Ensure the .htaccess and index.php files are in the same public-accessible directory. The .htaccess file should contain this code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [QSA,L]

Nginx

Your nginx configuration file should contain this code (along with other settings you may need) in your location block:

try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php;

This assumes that Slim's index.php is in the root folder of your project (www root).

lighttpd

Your lighttpd configuration file should contain this code (along with other settings you may need). This code requires lighttpd >= 1.4.24.

url.rewrite-if-not-file = ("^" => "/index.php")

This assumes that Slim's index.php is in the root folder of your project (www root).

Documentation

http://docs.slimframework.com/

How to Contribute

Pull Requests

Fork the Slim Framework repository
Create a new branch for each feature or improvement
Send a pull request from each feature branch to the develop branch

It is very important to separate new features or improvements into separate feature branches, and to send a pull request for each branch. This allows me to review and pull in new features or improvements individually.

Style Guide

All pull requests must adhere to the PSR-2 standard.

Unit Testing

All pull requests must be accompanied by passing unit tests and complete code coverage. The Slim Framework uses phpunit for testing.

Learn about PHPUnit

Community

Forum and Knowledgebase

Visit Slim's official forum and knowledge base at http://help.slimframework.com where you can find announcements, chat with fellow Slim users, ask questions, help others, or show off your cool Slim Framework apps.

Twitter

Follow @slimphp on Twitter to receive news and updates about the framework.

Author

The Slim Framework is created and maintained by Josh Lockhart. Josh is a senior web developer at New Media Campaigns. Josh also created and maintains PHP: The Right Way, a popular movement in the PHP community to introduce new PHP programmers to best practices and good information.

License

The Slim Framework is released under the MIT public license.

http://www.slimframework.com/license

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