twitnic/slimer

Artisan-style console tooling for Slim Framework 2 applications.

0.0.1 2026-04-02 15:03 UTC

Requires

• php: >=7.2
• slim/slim: ^2.6
• symfony/console: ^3.4 || ^4.4 || ^5.4 || ^6.4

Requires (Dev)

• phpunit/phpunit: ^8.5.41 || ^9.6

MIT

• Dominic Richter

• cli
• console
• slim
• slim2

README

twitnic/slimer is a standalone Composer package that gives Slim Framework 2 projects an Artisan-style command line experience.

It ships with:

• a vendor/bin/slimer console entrypoint
• Slim 2 bootstrap discovery via .slimer.php
• route:list for inspecting registered routes
• serve for running the built-in PHP web server
• init, make:command, make:controller, make:middleware, and make:view
• hooks for custom project commands

Installation

composer require twitnic/slimer

Quick start

Initialize the package inside an existing Slim 2 application:

vendor/bin/slimer init

That creates a .slimer.php file. Point the generated bootstrap callback to your Slim entry script if needed, then inspect the available commands:

vendor/bin/slimer list
vendor/bin/slimer about
vendor/bin/slimer route:list

Configuration

Slimer looks for configuration in this order:

1. the path from SLIMER_CONFIG
2. .slimer.php
3. config/slimer.php
4. app/config/slimer.php

Example configuration:

<?php

return array(
    'bootstrap' => 'app/bootstrap.php',

    'commands' => array(
        App\Console\Commands\CleanupCommand::class,
    ),

    'generators' => array(
        'commands_path' => 'app/Console/Commands',
        'command_namespace' => 'App\\Console\\Commands',
        'controllers_path' => 'app/controllers',
        'controller_namespace' => 'App\\Controllers',
        'middleware_path' => 'app/middleware',
        'middleware_namespace' => 'App\\Middleware',
        'views_path' => 'app/views',
    ),
);

Built-in commands

vendor/bin/slimer about
vendor/bin/slimer init
vendor/bin/slimer route:list
vendor/bin/slimer serve --host=127.0.0.1 --port=8080
vendor/bin/slimer make:command Cleanup
vendor/bin/slimer make:controller Admin/User
vendor/bin/slimer make:middleware ApiAuth
vendor/bin/slimer make:view admin/dashboard

Notes

• route:list expects a bootstrapped Slim\Slim instance.
• Prefer a dedicated bootstrap file that builds the application without immediately calling $app->run().
• Custom commands can either be instantiated directly, returned from a callable, or referenced by class name.
• Generated middleware classes extend \Slim\Middleware, which matches Slim 2.