Suggestion Slim replace by Silex

jakubzapletal commented 10 years ago

Hi guys. I would like to suggest replace Slim by Silex (http://silex.sensiolabs.org/). Both frameworks are "micro" frameworks and both are considered as THE BEST. But I have deeply studied documentation of both and I think that Silex can better fit us.

It has:

natural support for template engine Twig, suggested in #28
class for handling request parameters, so we can avoid using super global variables ($_POST, $_GET) what is better practice
support for basic controllers
support for provider. Providers allow the developer to reuse parts of an application into another one.
support for security what will be certainly needed for Expert Facing

What is import to say that Silex usage in basics is nearly the same as Slim, so you don't need to learn different environment.

What do you think? If you hesitate I can do example PR and you will see differences. Please let me know.

@innls @zbirmingham @Mittals @greendost @jemuelyoung

spapali commented 10 years ago

I would be totally open to that if the rest of the team feels strongly about a switch. However, I am very hesitant to make a huge change like that now. Lets try to work with what we have already established unless the advantages our huge.

jakubzapletal commented 10 years ago

@spapali at the first time the main file index.php will be nearly the same as is now. So I think it's not so huge change. When we will make other APIs this file will be rising and has many lines, then will be more complicated to work with file with many lines. This is why I suggest to do so now. But I will accept your decision.

spapali / Blue-Economics

Suggestion Slim replace by Silex #34