Slim is a PHP micro-framework that helps you quickly write simple yet powerful web applications and APIs.
It's recommended that you use Composer to install Slim.
$ composer require "slim/slim:4.x-dev"
This will install Slim and all required dependencies. Slim requires PHP 7.1 or newer.
Before you can get up and running with Slim you will need to choose a PSR-7 implementation that best fits your application. A few notable ones:
- Nyholm/psr7 - This is the fastest, strictest and most lightweight implementation at the moment
- Guzzle/psr7 - This is the implementation used by the Guzzle Client. It is not as strict but adds some nice functionality for Streams and file handling. It is the second fastest implementation but is a bit bulkier
- zend-diactoros - This is the Zend implementation. It is the slowest implementation of the 3.
- Slim-Psr7 - This is the Slim Framework projects PSR-7 implementation.
Slim-Http is a set of decorators for any PSR-7 implementation that we recommend is used with Slim Framework.
<?php
// composer require slim/slim:4.x-dev slim/psr7:dev-master slim/http
use Slim\App;
use Slim\Http\Factory\DecoratedResponseFactory;
use Slim\Http\ServerRequest;
use Slim\Middleware\ErrorMiddleware;
use Slim\Psr7\Factory\ResponseFactory;
use Slim\Psr7\Factory\ServerRequestFactory;
use Slim\Psr7\Factory\StreamFactory;
$responseFactory = new DecoratedResponseFactory(new ResponseFactory(), new StreamFactory());
$app = new App($responseFactory);
// Add middlweare (LIFO stack)
$app->add(new ErrorMiddleware($app->getCallableResolver(), $responseFactory, true, true, true));
// Action
$app->get('/hello/{name}', function ($request, $response, $args) {
return $response->getBody()->write("Hello, " . $args['name']);
});
$request = new ServerRequest(ServerRequestFactory::createFromGlobals());
$app->run($request);
<?php
require 'vendor/autoload.php';
use Nyholm\Psr7\Factory\Psr17Factory;
use Nyholm\Psr7Server\ServerRequestCreator;
/**
* We need to instantiate our factories before instantiating Slim\App
* In the case of Nyholm/psr7 the Psr17Factory provides all the Http-Factories in one class
* which includes ResponseFactoryInterface
*/
$psr17Factory = new Psr17Factory();
$serverRequestFactory = new ServerRequestCreator(
$psr17Factory,
$psr17Factory,
$psr17Factory,
$psr17Factory
);
/**
* The App::__constructor() method takes 1 mandatory parameter and 2 optional parameters
* @param ResponseFactoryInterface Any implementation of a ResponseFactory
* @param ContainerInterface|null Any implementation of a Container
* @param array Settings array
*/
$app = new Slim\App($psr17Factory);
$app->get('/hello/{name}', function ($request, $response, $args) {
return $response->getBody()->write("Hello, " . $args['name']);
});
/**
* The App::run() method takes 1 parameter
* @param ServerRequestInterface An instantiation of a ServerRequest
*/
$request = $serverRequestFactory->fromGlobals();
$app->run($request);
<?php
require 'vendor/autoload.php';
use Zend\Diactoros\ResponseFactory;
use Zend\Diactoros\ServerRequestFactory;
use Zend\HttpHandlerRunner\Emitter\SapiEmitter;
$responseFactory = new ResponseFactory();
$serverRequestFactory = new ServerRequestFactory();
/**
* The App::__constructor() method takes 1 mandatory parameter and 2 optional parameters
* @param ResponseFactoryInterface Any implementation of a ResponseFactory
* @param ContainerInterface|null Any implementation of a Container
* @param array Settings array
*/
$app = new Slim\App($responseFactory);
$app->get('/hello/{name}', function ($request, $response, $args) {
return $response->getBody()->write("Hello, " . $args['name']);
});
/**
* The App::handle() method takes 1 parameter
* Note we are using handle() and not run() since we want to emit the response using Zend's Response Emitter
* @param ServerRequestInterface An instantiation of a ServerRequest
*/
$request = ServerRequestFactory::fromGlobals();
$response = $app->handle($request);
/**
* Once you have obtained the ResponseInterface from App::handle()
* You will need to emit the response by using an emitter of your choice
* We will use Zend HttpHandleRunner SapiEmitter for this example
*/
$responseEmitter = new SapiEmitter();
$responseEmitter->emit($response);
<?php
require 'vendor/autoload.php';
use Slim\Http\Factory\DecoratedResponseFactory;
use Slim\Http\Decorators\ServerRequestDecorator;
use Zend\Diactoros\ResponseFactory;
use Zend\Diactoros\ServerRequestFactory;
use Zend\Diactoros\StreamFactory;
$responseFactory = new ResponseFactory();
$streamFactory = new StreamFactory();
$decoratedResponseFactory = new DecoratedResponseFactory($responseFactory, $streamFactory);
$serverRequestFactory = new ServerRequestFactory();
/**
* The App::__constructor() method takes 1 mandatory parameter and 2 optional parameters
* Note that we pass in the decorated response factory which will give us access to the Slim\Http
* decorated Response methods like withJson()
* @param ResponseFactoryInterface Any implementation of a ResponseFactory
* @param ContainerInterface|null Any implementation of a Container
* @param array Settings array
*/
$app = new Slim\App($decoratedResponseFactory);
$app->get('/hello/{name}', function ($request, $response, $args) {
return $response->withJson(['Hello' => 'World']);
});
/**
* The App::run() method takes 1 parameter
* Note that we pass in the decorated server request object which will give us access to the Slim\Http
* decorated ServerRequest methods like withRedirect()
* @param ServerRequestInterface An instantiation of a ServerRequest
*/
$request = ServerRequestFactory::fromGlobals();
$decoratedServerRequest = new ServerRequestDecorator($request);
$app->run($decoratedServerRequest);
<?php
require 'vendor/autoload.php';
use GuzzleHttp\Psr7\ServerRequest;
use Http\Factory\Guzzle\ResponseFactory;
$responseFactory = new ResponseFactory();
/**
* The App::__constructor() method takes 1 mandatory parameter and 2 optional parameters
* @param ResponseFactoryInterface Any implementation of a ResponseFactory
* @param ContainerInterface|null Any implementation of a Container
* @param array Settings array
*/
$app = new Slim\App($responseFactory);
$app->get('/hello/{name}', function ($request, $response, $args) {
return $response->getBody()->write("Hello, " . $args['name']);
});
/**
* The App::run() method takes 1 parameter
* @param ServerRequestInterface An instantiation of a ServerRequest
*/
$request = ServerRequest::fromGlobals();
$app->run($request);
You may quickly test this using the built-in PHP server:
$ php -S localhost:8000
Going to http://localhost:8000/hello/world will now display "Hello, world".
For more information on how to configure your web server, see the Documentation.
To execute the test suite, you'll need to install all development dependencies.
$ git clone https://github.com/slimphp/Slim-Http
$ composer install
$ composer test
Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.
Learn more at these links:
If you discover security related issues, please email security@slimframework.com instead of using the issue tracker.
The Slim Framework is licensed under the MIT license. See License File for more information.