A PHP micro-framework standing on the shoulder of giants

Silex is a PHP microframework for PHP 5.3. It is built on the shoulders

of Symfony2 and Pimple and also inspired by sinatra.

A microframework provides the guts for building simple single-file apps.

Silex aims to be:

Concise: Silex exposes an intuitive and concise API that

is fun to use.

Extensible: Silex has an extension system based around

the Pimple micro service-container that makes it even easier to tie in

third party libraries.

Testable: Silex uses Symfony2's HttpKernel which

abstracts request and response. This makes it very easy to test apps

and the framework itself. It also respects the HTTP specification and

encourages its proper use.

In a nutshell, you define controllers and map them to routes, all in one

step:

escape

All that is needed to get access to the Framework is to include the

autoloader.

Next we define a route to /hello/{name} that matches

for GET requests. When the route matches, the

function is executed and the return value is sent back to the

client.

Finally, the app is run. It's really that easy! Installing Silex

is as easy as it can get. Download the archive file, extract it, and you're done!

Want to learn more? Read the documentation.

Who is behind Silex?

Silex is brought to you by Fabien Potencier, the

creator of the Symfony

framework, and Igor Wiedler. Silex is released under the

MIT license.