Use this skeleton application to quickly setup and start working on a new Slim Framework v3.5 application.

NOTE: If you want a similar skeleton for version 4, go to: (https://github.com/ricardoper/slim4-twig-skeleton).

This skeleton application was built for Composer. This makes setting up a new Slim Framework v3.5 application quick and easy.

• PSR-2
• PSR-4
• PHP 5.5
• Namespaced

• Helpers
• Services
• Twig Views
• Flash Messages
• Symfony VarDumper
• Logging with Monolog
• Folders structure with sense
• Environment variables with Dotenv

Run this command from the directory in which you want to install your new Slim Framework v3.5 Skeleton.

composer create-project ricardoper/slim3-skeleton [my-app-name]

Replace [my-app-name] with the desired directory name for your new application. You'll want to:

• Point your virtual host document root to your new application's public/ directory.
• Ensure storage/ is web writeable.

• /app : Application code (App Namespace)
  • ./Controllers : Add your controllers here
  • ./Middlewares : Add your middlewares here
  • ./Routes : Add your routes here
  • ./Services : Add your services here
  • ./Views : Add your Twig views here
• /config : Add/modify your configurations here
• /public : Add your assets files here

• getContainer() : Returns the Slim App container
• getService(string $service) : Returns service from container by name
• getRequest() : Returns HTTP Request
• getResponse() : Returns HTTP Response
• getView() : Returns Twig View
• render(string $template, array $data) : Renders Twig page stored in Views folder

• getContainer() : Returns the Slim App container
• getService(string $service) : Returns service from container by name

• d() : Symfony VarDumper and continue
• dd() : Symfony VarDumper and die
• env(string $variable, string $default) : Return environment variables with
• base_path() : Returns base path location
• app_path() : Returns app path location
• config_path() : Returns config path location
• public_path() : Returns public path location
• storage_path() : Returns storage path location

You can add as many middlewares as you want in a clean way (/app/Middlewares).

After add your middleware, you can enable or disable it in config/middlewares.php configuration file.

You can add as many routes files as you want (/app/Routes), but you need to enable these files in /apps/Routes/app.php file.

You can add as many services as you want in a clean way (/app/Services).

After add your service, you can enable or disable it in config/services.php configuration file.

You can add as many configurations files as you want (/config), but you need to enable these files in /config/app.php file.

flash : To get Flash Messages

Try the skeleton demo pages.

http(s)://virtualhost.int/

http(s)://virtualhost.int/hello/[name]

NOTE: Replace [name] with the desired User name

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