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carbontwelve/slim-skeleton
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An opinionated slim skeleton

0.0.4(10y ago)129[7 issues](https://github.com/carbontwelve/slim-skeleton/issues)MITPHPPHP >=5.5.9

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Slim Skeleton
=============

[](#slim-skeleton)

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A rather opinionated skeleton project for getting started with your slim applications. It is heavily inspired by Laravels directory structure, so if you have used Laravel 5 you should feel familiar with this.

Getting started
---------------

[](#getting-started)

The easiest method for getting started developing with the Slim3 Skeleton is via the composer `create-project` command: `composer create-project -s dev --prefer-dist carbontwelve/slim-skeleton app`

Using `npm install` will pull in all the node requirements for the gulpfile to run, the gulpfile has serveral helper methods for building js and css from the resource folder as well as a file watcher to build on demand while you code.

Development
-----------

[](#development)

Once installed you can use the built in php server with the `serve.php` helper to run the app in your browser: `php -S 127.0.0.1:8080 -t public serve.php`

Basic page "router" usage
-------------------------

[](#basic-page-router-usage)

The Slim Skeleton extends the Slim3 `\Slim\Handlers\NotFound` handler class with `App\Http\Handlers\NotFoundPageResolver` which checks to see if the uri path can be resolved to a view inside the path `resources\views\pages`.

It will first check to see if the uri path is a directory and if so then check to see if there is a index.phtml within it; this means that `http://example.com/item-one/item-two` will first attempt to resolve to `resources\views\pages\item-one\item-two\index.phtml`.

If the first check fails it will then see if the view file exists directly, in the case of the previous example it would then attempt to resolve to `resources\views\pages\item-one\item-two.phtml`.

If both checks fail it passes through to the default Slim3 `renderHtmlNotFoundOutput` method.

With this simple functionality you can build quite complex websites without having to configure any granular routes!

Roadmap
-------

[](#roadmap)

I found myself needing a simple, yet opinionated, skeleton project to build out other applications using Slim3. For larger projects I tend to go for Laravel5 and so the folder structure is heavily inspired by that framework.

###  Health Score

19

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LowBetter than 9% of packages

Maintenance0

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity9

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity52

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~35 days

Total

4

Last Release

3680d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/464699?v=4)[Simon Dann](/maintainers/carbontwelve)[@carbontwelve](https://github.com/carbontwelve)

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Top Contributors

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