S L I M E

Starter kit for building web applications with Slim PHP Framework

(it's Slim ... enhanced)

⭐ Demo & Docs ⭐

What's included?

• Slim v4 (w/ Slim PSR-7)

• Handlebars templating - Lightncandy

• Helpful abstraction libraries:

  • View rendering - Slime Render
  • Database handlers - DB Kit
  • Cookie handlers - Cookie
  • Simple HTTP client - HTTP Request
  • Misc utility functions - X-Utilities

• Minimal front-end boilerplate & utility library options - scratch

• Simple organization - folders for css, js, images, templates, and controllers

• Blank CSS and JS placeholder files

• settings.php - helpful basic variables and settings

• index.php - initialized Slim application w/ middleware, db connection, and default 404 configuration

• .htaccess - routes all non-file urls to index, forces https, and uses gzip for static assets (if available)

• .gitignore - ignores /vendor, .vscode, and .DS_Store

Requirements

• Apache
• PHP >= 7.4
• PDO-compatible database (if using DB handlers)

Installation

Easy install with composer:

composer create-project hxgf/slime new-project-name

Usage

See controllers/index.php for an example of routing and template rendering.

See templates/index.html and templates/_layouts/base.html for examples using handlebars and layouts.

Helpful resources:

• Handlebars Cookbook
• Slim v4 Routing
• DB Kit CRUD operations
• Tachyons Docs

Check out slime-demo to see examples of some cool stuff you can do with Slime!

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Slime is heavily inspired by STEREO, an older toolkit I've assembled and maintained, which has helped me to be very productive and make a decent living over the years.

I hope these tools and the workflows they enable can help some of you as much as they've helped me : )