This skeleton application was forked from slimphp/Slim-Skeleton most of the original readme still applies. I just reworded portions to make it clear we are talking about the MVC skeleton.
Use this skeleton application to quickly setup and start working on a new Slim Framework 3 MVC application. This application uses the latest Slim 3 with the PHP-View template renderer and twig-view template, take your pick. It also uses the Monolog logger.
This skeleton mvc application was built for Composer. This makes setting up a new Slim Framework MVC application quick and easy.
Run this command from the directory in which you want to install your new Slim Framework application.
php composer.phar create-project bmartinGithub/slim-mvc-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
logs/is web writeable. - Ensure 'cache/' is web writeable.
To run the application in development, you can run these commands
cd [my-app-name]
php composer.phar start
Run this command in the application directory to run the test suite
php composer.phar test
That's it! Now go build something cool.
Changes to the original project start now! I moved the source code from src to app/controllers | models | lib | extra all have their own namespace. I moved the template directory to view/|layouts|components I added a cache directory to be outside the app directory.
##Routes You can follow the normal instructions for routes as documented for slimframework. I perfered using the NAMESPACE::class':function' method directly in the controller instead of adding to the dependency container.
Every controller should extend App\Lib\BaseController This will allow you to inherit the construct method but still allow you to override it when needed.
public function __construct(Container $container){ this.container = $container; }
By extending the BaseController class you also get to use the App\Lib\ControllerTraits\BaseTraits This will be the centeral location for common methods that should be shared with all controllers.
more to come...