Setting up Slim Framework for REST API and Google App Engine + Cloud SQL + memcached

Slim is the 2nd fastest api server in the planet, next to Phalcon.

This is a simple skeleton project for Slim 3 that implements a simple REST API.

Main specs

• Uses syslog for Google compatible logging. syslog(LOG_INFO, 'Authorized access'); / syslog(LOG_WARNING, "Unauthorized access");
• Specially oriented to develop Restful APIs using JSON
• API Rate limiter middleware, for throttling excesive requests. [https://github.com/akirk/php-ratelimiter]
• Auto Logout on invalid Bearer Token - using middleware on routes $this->delete('/{id}', 'UsersController:delete')->add('Restrict:AccessToken');

Here is how i did it:

Step 1 - run the root of your new project

composer require slim/slim "^3.0"

Step 2 - Edit composer.json

{
    "require": {
        "slim/slim": "^3.7"
    },
    "autoload": {
        "psr-4": {
            "Controllers\\": "src/controllers/",
            "Libs\\": "src/libs/"
        }
    }
}

Step 3 - run in root

composer.phar install --no-dev -o

Step 4 - Create Folders/Files (see files in this git)

api\src\
api\src\controllers\
api\src\libs\
api\src\libs\main.php
api\src\libs\ratelimiter.php
api\src\libs\restrict.php
api\src\dependencies.php
api\src\middlewares.php
api\src\routes.php
api\src\settings.php

Quick Install Guide

1. download and extract [https://github.com/pjabadesco/slim-restapi-gae/archive/master.zip]
2. cd api
3. composer dump-autoload --no-dev -o
4. cd ..
5. edit & save app.yaml (put correct environment values)
6. dev_appserver.py ./app.yaml

TOOLS

dev_appserver.py ./app.yaml

gcloud source repos clone default --project={{YOUR PROJECT ID}}

gcloud app deploy ./app.yaml --project {{YOUR PROJECT ID}}

every time you make changes in SLIM's routes.php, you must run: composer dump-autoload --no-dev -o