Develop PSR-7 middleware applications in minutes!

zend-expressive builds on zend-stratigility to provide a minimalist PSR-7 middleware framework for PHP, with the following features:

• Routing. Choose your own router; we support:
  • Aura.Router
  • FastRoute
  • zend-router
• DI Containers, via PSR-11 Container. Middleware matched via routing is retrieved from the composed container.
• Optionally, templating. We support:
  • Plates
  • Twig
  • ZF2's PhpRenderer

We provide two ways to install Expressive, both using Composer: via our skeleton project and installer, or manually.

The simplest way to install and get started is using the skeleton project, which includes installer scripts for choosing a router, dependency injection container, and optionally a template renderer and/or error handler. The skeleton also provides configuration for officially supported dependencies.

To use the skeleton, use Composer's create-project command:

$ composer create-project zendframework/zend-expressive-skeleton <project dir>

This will prompt you through choosing your dependencies, and then create and install the project in the <project dir> (omitting the <project dir> will create and install in a zend-expressive-skeleton/ directory).

You can install Expressive standalone using Composer:

$ composer require zendframework/zend-expressive

However, at this point, Expressive is not usable, as you need to supply minimally:

• a router.
• a dependency injection container.

We currently support and provide the following routing integrations:

• Aura.Router: composer require zendframework/zend-expressive-aurarouter
• FastRoute: composer require zendframework/zend-expressive-fastroute
• zend-router: composer require zendframework/zend-expressive-zendrouter

We recommend using a dependency injection container, and typehint against PSR-11 Container. We can recommend the following implementations:

• zend-servicemanager: composer require zendframework/zend-servicemanager
• Pimple (see docs for more details): composer require zendframework/zend-pimple-config
• Aura.Di (see docs for more details): composer require zendframework/zend-auradi-config

Additionally, you may optionally want to install a template renderer implementation, and/or an error handling integration. These are covered in the documentation.

Documentation is in the doc tree, and can be compiled using mkdocs:

$ mkdocs build

Additionally, public-facing, browseable documentation is available at https://docs.zendframework.com/zend-expressive/