burtscherflorian/slimphp-rest-starter

Starter REST-Application in PHP with Slim 3 Framework

slimphp-REST-starter

Starter REST-Application written in PHP with the Slim 3 Framework, _(*1)

Prerequisites

PHP

• Minimum: PHP version 5.6
• Recommended: PHP version 7.1

Composer

Composer is a dependencies manager for PHP on a per-project basis., _(*2)

Get Composer from their website. Follow the installation guide in the "Getting Started" section. For further information about what composer is, please read the docs on their page., _(*3)

After installation, for commands, you can use either the composer.phar file in the project directory - if composer not globally installed - , or you can work directly with composer - if globally installed on your machine., _(*4)

Globally installed on system:, _(*5)

 > composer ... 

or downloaded composer.phar file, _(*6)

 > composer.phar ...

In the following instructions we will use composer globally installed!, _(*7)

Installation

Once you`ve installed composer, the starter project can be downloaded over composer., _(*8)

Root to the directory where you want to install the project, _(*9)

Install the starter project with following command: ```, _(*10)

composer creae-project "burtscherflorian/slimphp-rest-starter:*" [your-application-name] ``` Replace [your-application-name] with the desired directory name for your new application., _(*11)

Root to the directory [your-application-name] and run composer install, to require all dependencies inside your slim application, _(*12)

> composer install

To the end you have to generate the autoload files with this command:, _(*13)

> composer dump-autoload -o

Now you are ready for REST!, _(*14)

Happy Coding!