Registering Slim's PHP-View in PHP-DI6

Question

I'm trying to learn the Slim framework and PHP-DI at the same time. I don't want folks to write my code for me, but I'm at a complete stand-still here. All I want to do is figure out how to pass Slim's PHP-View object into a controller class using PHP-DI's Slim Bridge. From there, I'll mess about and figure things out. But I can't even get that to work. I'm thinking the Codecourse tutorial I've been watching is perhaps out of date, because it doesn't work either, and it used Twig to boot, which I'd prefer to avoid for the time being, as it's just one more thing I have to learn... Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

Answer 1

Slim components are configured with Pimple service providers, those won't work with PHP-DI. If you want to use Twig then you have to create it manually (see the Twig documentation).

Here is an example:

return [
    Twig_Environment::class => function () {
        $loader = new Twig_Loader_Filesystem('/path/to/templates');
        return new Twig_Environment($loader, [
            'cache' => '/path/to/compilation_cache',
        ]);
    },
];

Then you can inject the Twig_Environment class.

Here is a more generic/configurable example: https://github.com/stratifyphp/twig-module/blob/master/res/config/config.php