Road Map

Road Map

Created September 25, 2010
Updated October 6, 2010

This is the official Slim framework roadmap working draft. This is a living document that may very well change in the future. Phase 1 will be completed first, followed by Phase 2 and Phase 3.

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 1.0

Phase 1 (Complete)

• Initial test coverage for primary classes
• Slim class loader
• Establis version numbering system
• Move Getting Started and Documentation to GitHub Wiki

Phase 2 (Complete)

• 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

Phase 3

• 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

Version 1.1

Marketing v1.1

Currently, my primary objective is to make Slim an incredible product. I don't care about marketing or competitors or seo. When Slim reaches "1.0", however, I will start actively marketing the Slim Framework to a larger set of PHP developers; I will start an official Slim Framework blog to make it easier to follow Slim Framework development progress; and I will drastically improve Slim's search engine optimization to boost Slim's PageRank compared to competiting frameworks. In summary:

• Polish website
• Move website onto CMS
• Add blog and RSS feed
• Improve SEO

Planned Features for v1.1

• Content negotiation
• Authentication
• Routing updates
  • User-agent route conditions
  • Application-wide route conditions
  • Default parameter values
• Encrypted cookies