What is Silex?

Silex is a PHP microframework and is built with Symfony and Pimple as a base. It is also inspired by Sinatra. It is basically a microframework that helps build simple single-file apps. Silex is concise and testable yet extensible. It helps define controllers and map them to routes in a single step.

Silex is a Symfony based micro web framework that uses the Twig template engine and Doctrine ORM (database abstraction). It is developed by SensioLabs and released under MIT Licensed.

Hello World Program in Silex

$app = new Silex\Application();

$app->get('/', function() use($app) { 
    return 'Hello World!';
});

$app->run();