Base setup for Slim MVC with a class for simple and fast JSON response, Laravel's Eloquent ORM as Model and Twig PHP template engine as View.

###Features

• Simple MVC implementation with namespaces and psr-4 autoload
• JSON response with HTTP status code handling resource data and success or error messages
• Clean project structure with separated public folder

###Install Simply clone or download this repo and install with Composer

###Configuration Import database.sql into your MySQL database then edit app/database/config.php with your database config

###How it works This base implementation contains little example code to make you understand how the components works togheter. When adding models and controllers be sure to set the appropriate namespace.

#####Models Put your models in app/models following the pre-existing. Laravel's Eloquent is used so you can refer to http://laravel.com/docs/eloquent. The example already contains

• Users.php - the model of the users database table with some user informations
• Messages.php - the model of the messages database table with message title and body and user's foreign key

#####Controllers Put your controllers in app/controllers. You can access the Slim instance provided by BaseController using $this->app in your class. The example already contains

• MessageController.php - the standard methods for displaying resource details

#####Views Put your views in app/views following the pre-existing

• home.html - the home view
• not-found.html - custom view rendered by $app->notFound(). Displays an error message passed as parameter using Twig

#####Routes Put your routers in routers/ and name it like someName.router.php

Route to controller

$app->get('/', 'Controller\MyBeautifulController:someMethod');

#####Run Just test the app with two existing public routes

• /messages - returns the list of all messages
• /messages/:id - returns a message details with author informations

###JSON Response The class include/Response.php is responsible for sending a JSON output. You just have to call one of its three methods

$messages = Message::all();
return Response::jsonResponse(200,$messages);

to easy return your data

return Response::respondWithError(404,"Message not found");

to easy return an error message

return Response::respondWithSuccess(201,"Resource created with success");

to easy return a success message