Develop PSR-7 middleware applications in minutes!
zend-expressive builds on zend-stratigility to provide a minimalist PSR-7 middleware framework for PHP, with the following features:
- Routing. Choose your own router; we support:
- DI Containers, via container-interop. Middleware matched via routing is retrieved from the composed container.
- Optionally, templating. We support:
We provide two ways to install Expressive, both using Composer: via our skeleton project and installer, or manually.
The simplest way to install and get started is using the skeleton project, which includes installer scripts for choosing a router, dependency injection container, and optionally a template renderer and/or error handler. The skeleton also provides configuration for officially supported dependencies.
To use the skeleton, use Composer's create-project command:
$ composer create-project zendframework/zend-expressive-skeleton <project dir>This will prompt you through choosing your dependencies, and then create and
install the project in the <project dir> (omitting the <project dir> will
create and install in a zend-expressive-skeleton/ directory).
You can install Expressive standalone using Composer:
$ composer require zendframework/zend-expressiveHowever, at this point, Expressive is not usable, as you need to supply minimally:
- a router.
- a dependency injection container.
We currently support and provide the following routing integrations:
- Aura.Router:
composer require zendframework/zend-expressive-aurarouter - FastRoute:
composer require zendframework/zend-expressive-fastroute - ZF2 MVC Router:
composer require zendframework/zend-expressive-zendrouter
We recommend using a dependency injection container, and typehint against container-interop. We can recommend the following implementations:
- zend-servicemanager:
composer require zendframework/zend-servicemanager - pimple-container-interop:
composer require xtreamwayz/pimple-container-interop - Aura.Di:
composer require aura/di:3.0.*@beta
Additionally, you may optionally want to install a template renderer implementation, and/or an error handling integration. These are covered in the documentation.
Documentation is in the doc tree, and can be compiled using mkdocs:
$ mkdocs buildAdditionally, public-facing, browseable documentation is available at https://zendframework.github.io/zend-expressive/
Architectural notes are in NOTES.md.
Please see the tests for full information on capabilities.