Rob Allen is a software developer and consultant with many years of web development experience using PHP and related technologies. He is part of Slim Framework’s leadership team and contributes to other open source projects. Rob is also a member of the Zend Framework Community team and wrote Zend Framework in Action. He is UK-based and runs Nineteen Feet Limited, focussing on web development, training and consultancy.

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Talk: Building APIs with Slim 3

Fast, discrete APIs are a key part of many web applications and Slim 3 is a fantastic platform for building them. With a focus on PSR-7, the new standard for HTTP messaging in PHP, Slim’s middleware focus and ability to get out of the way ensure thats you can buld APIs that are a joy to work with. We’ll cover content-type handling, accept header awareness, error handling and all the other things required to ensure that your APIs are easy to integrate with. By the end of this session you will be well placed to write your own APIs with Slim 3.