Silex is a micro
web framework written in
PHP and based on
Symfony,
Twig (template engine) and
Doctrine (database abstraction). It is
MIT License
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d.
The general purpose of Silex is to be as lightweight as you need it to be, as it is made for it to be as easy as possible to add features and extend the Silex base. Silex can be used for the creation of small web applications (e.g.
REST APIs) as this is the main case for micro frameworks, however Silex can be extended into a full stack
MVC framework.
Silex comes in two available versions; 'fat' and 'slim'. The difference between these being that the fat version is fully featured and includes
database abstraction, a
template engine and various Symfony components. Whereas the slim version just comes with a basic routing engine.
Silex became end-of-life in June 2018 with people being encouraged to use Symfony instead.
Features
The base feature set is a
URL routing system, built-in
Web Security
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,
Sessions and
Cookies
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abstraction. The extended version of Silex features integration of Twig, Doctrine, a Translation service for translating your application into different languages, a logging mechanism using the Monolog library to log requests and errors, services for form validation and generation, and more.
History
Silex was originally created by Fabien Potencier, the creator of the Symfony framework, and Igor Wiedler. It was first released as a 'web framework proof-of-concept'.
Silex was at its time one of the best known micro frameworks for PHP and was regularly placed among the fastest in benchmarks for micro framework comparisons.
Example
The following code shows a simple web application that prints "
Hello World
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!":
$app = new Silex\Application();
$app->get('/', function() use($app) );
$app->run();
See also
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Symfony
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Comparison of web frameworks
References
External links
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