# Slim

PHP micro framework for web applications and APIs built around a router, middleware and PSR-7 HTTP messages.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/slim/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-18
Updated: 2026-10-25
Listed since: 2026-10-18

## Record

### Links

- home: https://www.slimframework.com
- repository: https://github.com/slimphp/Slim
- docs: https://www.slimframework.com/docs/v4/
- forum: https://discourse.slimframework.com/

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Josh Lockhart, Andrew Smith, Rob Allen, Pierre Bérubé, Slim Framework Team
- maintainerType: community
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2012
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: framework
- hosting: php
- language: php
- runtime: php
- runtimeMin: php 7.4
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: unknown
- databases: unknown
- adminUi: unknown
- headlessApi: unknown
- templating: twig (Twig-View), php (PHP-View)
- i18n: unknown

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: per-request
- renderingModes: server
- installMethod: composer create-project slim/slim-skeleton, composer require slim/slim

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT

### Releases

- currentMajor: 4
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-09-01

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 12276
- packagistDownloads: 57412755
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 227
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: 1494272
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: 19403
- dependentPackages: 1313

### Sources

- name: https://www.slimframework.com/ (read 2026-10-18)
- urls: https://github.com/slimphp/Slim (read 2026-10-18)
- urls: https://packagist.org/packages/slim/slim (read 2026-10-18)
- urls: https://www.slimframework.com/ (read 2026-10-18)
- firstRelease: https://packagist.org/packages/slim/slim (read 2026-10-18)
- maintainer: https://github.com/slimphp/Slim/blob/5.x/LICENSE.md (read 2026-10-20)
- maintainerType: https://www.slimframework.com/ (read 2026-10-18)
- category: https://www.slimframework.com/ (read 2026-10-18)
- language: https://github.com/slimphp/Slim (read 2026-10-18)
- runtime: https://www.slimframework.com/docs/v4/start/installation.html (read 2026-10-18)
- runtimeMin: https://repo.packagist.org/p2/slim/slim.json (read 2026-10-18)
- runtimeMin: https://www.slimframework.com/docs/v4/start/installation.html (read 2026-10-18)
- templating: https://www.slimframework.com/docs/v4/features/templates.html (read 2026-10-18)
- renderingModes: https://www.slimframework.com/docs/v4/start/web-servers.html (read 2026-10-18)
- installMethod: https://www.slimframework.com/ (read 2026-10-18)
- license: https://github.com/slimphp/Slim (read 2026-10-18)
- licenseModel: https://github.com/slimphp/Slim (read 2026-10-18)
- currentMajor: https://github.com/slimphp/Slim/releases/latest (read 2026-10-18)
- latestReleaseDate: https://github.com/slimphp/Slim/releases/latest (read 2026-10-18)
- githubStargazers: https://github.com/slimphp/Slim (read 2026-10-18)
- contributors: https://github.com/slimphp/Slim/graphs/contributors (read 2026-10-18)
- packagistDownloads: https://packagist.org/packages/slim/slim (read 2026-10-18)
- runsAs: https://www.slimframework.com/docs/v4/start/installation.html (read 2026-10-19)
- dependentRepos: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/packagist.org/packages/slim%2Fslim (read 2026-10-25)
- dependentPackages: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/packagist.org/packages/slim%2Fslim (read 2026-10-25)
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: https://packagist.org/packages/slim/slim/stats.json (read 2026-10-25)

## Notes

Slim is a PHP micro framework for web applications and APIs, built around a router, middleware and PSR-7 HTTP messages. It has no view layer of its own. Templates come from Twig-View or the PHP-View package, and any PSR-7 implementation can supply the message objects. Slim ships no database layer; the docs carry a Doctrine cookbook entry.

Applications run behind a web server with URL rewriting. A new project starts from the skeleton package. The [documentation](https://www.slimframework.com/docs/v4/) covers a dedicated server and shared hosting with Apache.

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