Road Map

Road Map

Created September 25, 2010
Updated November 2, 2010

This is the official Slim framework roadmap working draft. This is a living document that may very well change in the future.

What are Slim's goals?

1. Remain light-weight, simple, and easy to use for both amateur programmers and professional programmers
2. Always favor clean syntax and simple solutions instead of messy syntax and complex solutions
3. Respect the 80/20 rule: satisfy 80% of common use cases rather than muddle the code-base for 20% of edge use cases
4. Support PHP 5 and above

Version 1.1 (In Progress)

• Content negotiation
• Authentication
• Routing updates
  • User-agent route conditions
  • Application-wide route conditions
  • Default parameter values
• Encrypted cookies
• Smarter before and after callbacks (ie. except and only conditionals)
• Clean up Slim::configure settings. Move $templates_dir into View, like other custom Views

Version 1.0 (Released November 2, 2010)

• Initial test coverage for primary classes
• Slim class loader
• Establish version numbering system
• Move Getting Started and Documentation to GitHub Wiki
• HTTP caching (ETag and LastModified)
• Cookie management
• Route redirects
• Route passing
• Route naming and urlFor helper
• Instantiate View in Slim::init()
• Improve Exception and Error handling
• Add "Contributing to Slim" Wiki page with expectations, style guidelines, etc.
• Write example custom View classes for Twig, Smarty, Mustache, etc.
• Add Slim app settings
• Add Slim app logging
• Improve test coverage for Request and Response
• Ensure inline documentation for Slim classes is complete