Basic HTTP Silex demo

Is a minor silex application showcasing the of how to handle request and responses with an general error handler.

Installation

$ composer install

Starting the server

$ php -S 127.0.0.1:1337

Issuing requests

Example are using httpie for issuing requests. You can use curl if you remember its syntax for I cannot.

Wrong method

$ http GET 127.0.0.1:1337
HTTP/1.1 405 Method Not Allowed
Allow: POST
Cache-Control: no-cache
Connection: close
Content-Type: application/json
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 15:25:41 GMT
Host: 127.0.0.1:1337
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.5.9-1ubuntu4.13

{
    "message": "No route found for \"GET /\": Method Not Allowed (Allow: POST)"
}

Bad requests

$ http POST 127.0.0.1:1337
HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Cache-Control: no-cache
Connection: close
Content-Type: application/json
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 15:26:20 GMT
Host: localhost:1337
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.5.9-1ubuntu4.13

{
    "message": "Data parameter required"
}

200 OK

$ http POST 127.0.0.1:1337 data="hello world" --form
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Cache-Control: no-cache
Connection: close
Content-Type: application/json
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 15:24:59 GMT
Host: localhost:1337
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.5.9-1ubuntu4.13

{
    "message": "hello world"
}