PHP routing library for fast API development

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  • did-you-buy-it-api

    "Did you buy it?" is a shopping list app designed to help people keep track of stuff they need to buy and to be able to share those lists with other users.

    At first that was more than enough for my use case and the library was left at that, but recently I started rewriting one of my personal projects Did You Buy It? live on my Twitch channel and decided I wanted to use PHP for it, as the original API was developed using Node and Express.

  • Slim

    Slim Framework 4 Skeleton Application

    PHP Routing is a custom written routing library that was inspired by the Slim framework. It was written as a small and lightweight alternative to it as I needed to use something with as little overhead as possible (not that Slim has a big foot print, hence the name Slim :D ). The first version of the library was consisting of a single PHP class that was able to handle static and some basic dynamic routes and had a semi working support for adding and using middlewares.

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  • Slim Framework

    Slim is a PHP micro framework that helps you quickly write simple yet powerful web applications and APIs. (by slimphp)

    At my day job we needed to develop an API and I've never really tried to build one using vanilla PHP, but instead used frameworks such as CodeIgniter or Slim or just a simple file that would mimic the functionality of an API but not be a proper one. Also we had a requirement that we needed to have full control over the code so we were not supposed to use any of the pre built solutions because of that requirement.

  • CodeIgniter

    Open Source PHP Framework (originally from EllisLab)

    At my day job we needed to develop an API and I've never really tried to build one using vanilla PHP, but instead used frameworks such as CodeIgniter or Slim or just a simple file that would mimic the functionality of an API but not be a proper one. Also we had a requirement that we needed to have full control over the code so we were not supposed to use any of the pre built solutions because of that requirement.

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