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Skeleton for a web service or an application (based on Slim 3 framework).

This skeleton follows several PHP Standards Recommendations (PSR):

• PSR-1 / PSR-2 (Coding standards)
• PSR-3 (Logging) via Monolog
• PSR-4 (Autoloading) via Composer
• PSR-7 (HTTP message) via Slim

Included components

• Slim 3.x incl. Flash messages & Twig view (MIT License)
• Twig template engine 1.x (BSD License)
• Monolog logger 1.x (MIT License)
• Custom Error and NotFound handler
• Middlewares: Cors, ForceRoute, Runtime, NoTrailingSlash, etc.
• Provider: ConsoleLoggerProvider, ExtendedRequestProvider, PdoProvider, ProfilerProvider, etc.
• Tests: PHPUnit bootstrap and AppTestCase prepared

Directory structure

path/to/project
|-- app                 <- Application config files
|   |-- slim            <- Slim config files
|   `-- twig            <- Twig templates
|-- bin                 <- Own scripts
|-- etc                 <- Own config files (like Apache)
|-- lib                 <- Vendor files (for composer)
|-- log                 <- Log files
|-- pub                 <- Webserver document root
|   |-- css
|   |-- img
|   |-- js
|   `-- lib
|-- src                 <- Application classes
|   `-- App
|       |-- Controller
|       |-- Handler     <- Put custom handlers here
|       |-- Middleware  <- Put custom middlewares here
|       |-- Model
|       |-- Provider    <- Put custom providers here
|       `-- Tests       <- Put custom tests (unit and integration tests) here
`-- tmp                 <- Temporary files
|   |-- session
|   `-- twig
`-- var                 <- Put other data in here

Requirements

• PHP 7
• Composer (MIT License)

• PHP components (MIT License)

Usage

Install / Create project

$ composer create-project ansas/slim-skeleton path/to/project

Develop / Run PHP build-in server

$ cd path/to/project
$ composer server

Open web browser with address http://any-domain-pointing-to-server:8888

Call controller from console

$ cd path/to/project
$ composer run The\Controller\YouWantToRun <- calls __invoke()
$ composer run The\Controller\YouWantToRun:methodWanted
$ composer run The\Controller\YouWantToRun:methodWanted parem1=yes param2=hi

Test / Check coding style and test code

$ cd path/to/project
$ composer test

Contribute

Everybody can contribute to this package. Just:

1. fork it,
2. make your changes and
3. send a pull request.

Please make sure to follow PSR-1 and PSR-2 coding conventions.

License

MIT license (see the LICENSE file for more information).