Important UPDATE:

I've published a fresher, improved version of this project under the name of slim3-flex. If you like clean, beautiful code, you certainly wanna check it out! :)

slim3-starter : A fullstack boilerplate for Slim 3

A Slim 3 starter project with a clean directory structure, inspired from Laravel. This source code provides the most essential setup & libraries to help deal with most of the needs any web application has.

Features :

• MVC architecture
• Clean dependency injection & autowiring system with the php-DI bridge for Slim 3
• Config variables laying in a simple .env file
• Twig as a template engine
• Full form validation features with custom rules and errors (See : respect/validation library)
• Data persistance via Eloquent ORM
• Pagination with Eloquent's paginator
• Events and listeners/handlers classes based on the SPL library
• Mailable classes using the popular SwiftMailer library
• CSRF protection for web routes
• Custom 403/404 errors
• Handy debug() function using the symfony/vardumper library
• SQL query caching with Redis
• Integrated logging with Monolog
• JSON formatting with Fractal
• Database seeding and migrations with Phinx

Setting up :

Once you've downloaded or cloned the project, fill the variables in the .env file. Set APP_ENV=dev to enable debugging and disable Twig caching at the same time. Then run :

  composer install
  ./vendor/bin/phinx migrate
  ./vendor/bin/phinx seed:run

Using Sqlite instead of MySQL

In your .env file, set DB_DRIVER=sqlite and DB_NAME=<absolute_path_to_sqlite> .

I recommend creating the .sqlite file within the /storage directory.

Recommended dev environment :

• PhpStorm + Vagrant homestead

If you are using homestead's Redis server, remember to edit /etc/redis/redis.conf and fill the requirepass line with your own password.