Slim is a PHP micro framework, similar to Flight, Silex and Limonade, not to be confused by the Ruby templating system of the same name. It claims to contain “everything you need and nothing you don’t.”
If functions like you would expect a micro framework to work. Here is the standard example.
<?php
require 'Slim/Slim.php';
$app = new Slim();
$app->get('/hello/:name', function ($name) {
echo "Hello, $name!";
});
$app->run();
?>
My favourite part of Slim, however, is actually the Slim Extras bundle which doesn’t ship with it, but can easily be downloaded and dropped in. This adds easy integration for lots of different templating languages – notably Smarty, Twig and Mustache.
So, for example, if you wanted to integrate Twig, just grab the Extras bundle, the Twig bundle, include the relevant file and change your initialisation statement to the following.
$app = new Slim(array("view" => "TwigView"));
That’s all – now you’re away and can call the render method with a filename and data array to render a template using Twig.
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Tags: framework, micro framework, PHP, slim, twig
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