Silex Skeleton

Welcome to the Silex Skeleton - a fully-functional Silex application that you can use as the skeleton for your new applications.

This document contains information on how to start using the Silex Skeleton.

Creating a Silex Application

Silex uses Composer to ease the creation of a new project:

$ composer create-project fabpot/silex-skeleton path/to/install ~2.0@dev

Composer will create a new Silex project under the path/to/install directory.

Congratulations! You're now ready to use Silex.

To see a real-live Silex page in action, start the PHP built-in web server with command:

$ cd path/to/install
$ composer run

This distribution is meant to be the starting point for your Silex applications.

A great way to start learning Silex is via the Documentation, which will take you through all the features of Silex.

The Silex Skeleton is configured with the following service providers:

UrlGeneratorServiceProvider - Provides a service for generating URLs for named routes.
ValidatorServiceProvider - Provides a service for validating data. It is most useful when used with the FormServiceProvider, but can also be used standalone.
ServiceControllerServiceProvider - As your Silex application grows, you may wish to begin organizing your controllers in a more formal fashion. Silex can use controller classes out of the box, but with a bit of work, your controllers can be created as services, giving you the full power of dependency injection and lazy loading.
TwigServiceProvider - Provides integration with the Twig template engine.
WebProfilerServiceProvider - Enable the Symfony web debug toolbar and the Symfony profiler in your Silex application when developing.
MonologServiceProvider - Enable logging in the development environment.

Read the Providers documentation for more details about Silex Service Providers.

Enjoy!