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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Silex
Posts with mentions or reviews of Silex.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-17.
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What are the more unknown frameworks you ever used?
Silex https://github.com/silexphp/Silex
Slim
Posts with mentions or reviews of Slim.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-13.
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Top 12 PHP Frameworks For Web Development in 2024
Slim is a micro PHP framework used for web development with 11.7k stars and 2k forks on GitHub. It has a simple and intuitive API development process. It is a micro-framework, meaning you only get a minimum of support for HTTP requests and forwarding requests to appropriate controllers. So the question is, why should you choose a micro-framework? Because it offers you flexibility and high extensibility.
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How to make implement "Single Entry Point" in PHP App?
SlimPHP 3 Skeleton app shows this as well: https://github.com/slimphp/Slim-Skeleton/blob/3.1.8/public/index.php
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Just created a dependency-free lightweight HTTP router
How hard did you look? There are plenty out there. FastRoute, Phroute, based on FastRoute, with basic middleware, League/Route - routing with middleware, using FastRoute, PSR 7 & 15, Slim Framework, at it's core, it like League/Route, etc. None of these require a full framework to use.
- Laravel considered harmful
- I'm looking for a php framework
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How to structure Slim/PHP-DI Project?
You can have the container call in a config folder with a file called dependencies or how ever you want. A few existing examples of this is here - Slim calls this app/dependencies in this skeleton project and Odan's Skeleton has this as config/container in their project.
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Hey, html and php problems
Maybe use this if you don't like to dive into bigger frameworks: https://www.slimframework.com/
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Any suggestions for lighter frameworks than Laravel?
My APIs are in Slim. It's super light and you have all you need: routes and middlewares.
- Slim, possívelmente o framework ideal para quem vem do Golang
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Which PHP Framework Should You Use in 2023?
You can download it and review the documentation here: https://www.slimframework.com/
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Silex and Slim you can also consider the following projects:
Lumen - The Laravel Lumen Framework.
Laravel - Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. We’ve already laid the foundation for your next big idea — freeing you to create without sweating the small things.
Bullet PHP - A resource-oriented micro PHP framework
Siler - ⚡ Flat-files and plain-old PHP functions rockin'on as a set of general purpose high-level abstractions.
Proton
Fast Route - Fast request router for PHP
Liten - Liten is a small and simple micro framework which can be used to build restful services and apps.
Wolff - 🐺 Lightweight and easy to use framework for building web apps.
Cycle ORM - PHP DataMapper, ORM