Slim

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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 2025-02-27.
  • 2025 Best PHP Micro Frameworks: Slim, Flight, Fat-Free, Lumen, and More!
    12 projects | dev.to | 27 Feb 2025
    Hey PHP fans! Welcome to 2025—a year where PHP continues to shine as the backbone of the web (sorry, haters, it’s not going anywhere!). If you’re building a slick API, a lightweight app, or just want to ditch the bloat of full-stack frameworks, micro frameworks are your ticket to coding bliss. Today, we’re diving into the top four PHP micro frameworks: Slim PHP, Flight PHP, Fat-Free Framework (F3), and Lumen—plus a few honorable mentions to keep things spicy.
  • Show HN: Dumbo – Hono inspired framework for PHP
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Nov 2024
    What do you think of Slim Framework as far as best practices for modern PHP in a micro framework (which is similar to OP's Dumbo)? Are there any other micro frameworks you recommend?

    https://www.slimframework.com/

  • The PHP Orkestra Framework
    7 projects | dev.to | 5 May 2024
    Currently Laravel is the "go to" for new PHP applications to mostly developers today, if not, plain PHP, Slim, Symfony and other frameworks does the job, but for Wordpress, custom PHP boilerplates or/and outdated PHP patterns (aka, single ton) is what we have for work in mostly cases, if not, hacky ways to integrate frameworks as Laravel itself or parts of it to leverage a better code structure.
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    13 projects | dev.to | 13 Feb 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.
  • Handling CORS with Slim 4
    1 project | dev.to | 17 Aug 2023
    Slim 4, a minimalistic PHP micro-framework, offers middleware support to easily add CORS headers. Middleware in Slim acts like a series of layers through which your app sends a request. One such layer can be responsible for adding CORS headers.
  • How to make implement "Single Entry Point" in PHP App?
    2 projects | /r/PHPhelp | 4 Jul 2023
    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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    1 project | /r/PHPhelp | 21 May 2023
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    4 projects | /r/PHP | 14 May 2023
    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.
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slimphp/Slim-Skeleton is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of Slim is PHP.


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