Slim Framework 3 Skeleton Application

Use this skeleton application for the slim 3 micro-framework with some pre configured dependencies and structures:

• Twig as View engine
• Eloquent as ORM for database work
• Monolog for logging
• PHP DI for dependency injection
• Silly CLI micro-framework for CLI Commands
• vlucas/phpdotenv to load environment configuration from ".env" file
• dtkahl/php-simple-config for simple access to configuration files
• dtkahl/php-file-cache as simple file cache
• Webpack to bundle assets and build SCSS
• Controller, Middleware and Factory classes
• Exception handling
• Maintenance mode

If you don't need all of this, you should just use slimphp/Slim-Skeleton which I forked and extended with this features.

Requirements

• PHP >= 7.0
• Composer
• NodeJS (for Webpack)

Install the Application

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

    composer create-project dtkahl/slim-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.
• create a copy ".env" of the file ".env.example" an set up your configuration

Install NodeJS dependencies:

npm install

Development

for development you can use the PHP built-in webserver:

    php -S 0.0.0.0:8080 -t public index.php

And let webpack bundle your assets live:

    npm run watch

On Production

Make sure to bundle your assets after clone/update your assets on production by running:

    npm run build