sglim/sglim

A simple PHP MVC skeleton build on top of Slim

Sglim

A Slim 3 MVC skeleton. It uses PDO for the model layer and Twig for the view layer. Also it depends of hassankhan/config library for load config files and the symfony/console package for the Sglim command line tool. Sglim can be extended adding few neccesary packages because Sglim goal is keep simple the Slim configuration., _(*1)

Why Sglim?

There are many Slim framework skeletons but i don't see neither that like me. So i have decided to build my own "MVC" skeleton for small/medium APIs and dynamic websites when you need speed and low complexity in your apps., _(*2)

Install

All you need to install Sglim is Composer. Run the following command., _(*3)

``` bash $ composer create-project "sglim/sglim":"dev-master" app-name, <sub>(*4)</sub>

## Run the application

Go into the public folder inside the project folder and then 
``` bash
$ cd app-name/public
# run the server
$ php -S 0.0.0.0:8000

Folders structure

Sglim uses different folders to organize your project based in other frameworks structure., <sub>(*5)</sub>

• App, where is hosted main application folders as Models, Views, Routes, Api and Middlewares.
• config, where you can find two configuration files: config_development and config_production. Both cantains database and Slim configuration and you can also set your Facebook, Twitter and other app secret keys.
• public. The folder where are all application frontend files.
• storage. Storage contains all rendered all Twig views(cache) and log files.

Command line

Sglim allows you many shortcuts to make things fast. Right now there are 3 main commands:, <sub>(*6)</sub>

Generate a new route file if the route doesn't exist., <sub>(*7)</sub>

``` bash $ php sglim make:route route-name, <sub>(*8)</sub>

**Generate a new model**

``` bash
$ php sglim make:model model-name

Generate a new view HTML5 file, <sub>(*9)</sub>

bash $ php sglim make:view view-name, <sub>(*10)</sub>

FAQ / Contact

Question 1: Can i use an ORM instead of PDO extension? Yes, you can. I tried using Eloquent(Lavel ORM) and i had to do minor changes in the index.php file. Only i had to add a charset option in the configuration file but it works properly. It is pretty simple and if you love ORMs you can mix Sglim with the ORM that you want., <sub>(*11)</sub>

Question 2: Why doesn't Sglim include all Slim package like Slim-Csrf? Because the Sglim idea is to keep it simple. But maybe in future commits i will set them to Sglim package, <sub>(*12)</sub>

You can contact with me through Twitter(@Siro_Diaz) or email me <siro_diaz@yahoo.com>, <sub>(*13)</sub>