Get to know the Slim Framework

July 30, 2021

Get to know the Slim Framework

Slim is a PHP micro framework that helps you quickly write simple and powerful web applications and APIs.
Essentially, Communicating HTTP requests and executing rules and returning HTTP responses.

Sample code snippet index.php

<?php
require __DIR__.'/vendor/autoload.php';

// config slim app
$config = [
  'settings' => ['addContentLengthHeader' => false]
];

$app = new \Slim\App($config);

// define app
$app->get('/hello/{name}', function($request, $response, $args){
  return $response->write("Hello ".$args['name']);
});

// run app
$app->run();

System Requirements:

• Web Server
• PHP 5.5 or later
• Composer

How to Install
To install use the slim framework library use the command from composer.

composer require slim/slim

How to Load Vendor Library

<?php
require __DIR__.'/vendor/autoload.php';

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