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Ahmad Ma'ruf
Ahmad Ma'ruf

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Flask-like framework, for PHP

I'm a beginner (both in PHP & Python). but, I had built web project with flask. So, I'm more familiar with "how flask works". And spesifically, I like the "blueprint" concept of the flask.

Now I want to learn PHP, but I find it hard to get learning resource (book/article) that using similar concept as flask.

Maybe can anyone share some thought about "microframework" in PHP that share similar concept with flask?.

Note:

  • I don't choose Laravel beacuse I just want to build simple web app, and I think microframework help me learn lot more.
  • I tried to learn Slim Framework, but I still don't get the idea of how slim framework works.
  • Sorry for my bad english :)

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Gabriel Reimers

I understand that you want something simple, but I'd still recommend giving Laravel a try. When you use it without the bootstrapping it is quite clean and if you only want to build an API you can simply ignore / remove all the UI and user management stuff.

I'm actually a mobile developer and only got into backend development very recently. I tried different frameworks but I found Laravel the easiest and quickest to learn. Especially because it has very good documentation and a vivid community. So it is quite easy to find solutions for common problems.

For example I just built a Slack bot for chat roulettes in Laravel. I didn't use any of the bootstrapping and build all the APIs manually. But I could tap into the Laravel ecosystem for things like OAuth, Payments and interactive UI (LiveWire), which saved a lot of time.

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Ahmad Ma'ruf

Thank you, I definetely need to learn more about laravel

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Dendi Handian • Edited

rather than finding it, just find a way how to modularize the business logic (like flask's blueprint) in the framework. try to find it in Slim framework, if it not possible then move to another micro framework.

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Ahmad Ma'ruf

I'm trying to follow this tutorial
odan.github.io/2019/11/05/slim4-tu...

But I felt too much information to grasp at once. It's hard to understand what happened.
Maybe you have some recomended article/tutorial about the topic? Thanks!

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Jon Randy ๐ŸŽ–๏ธ

Maybe take a look at Slim

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Vic P. • Edited

flightphp.com/

Flight - A lite-weight framework but simple, easy to use, quite full, and quick to create website or webapp. It's quite the same as Flask.

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Ahmad Ma'ruf

Thank you!