trying out slimphp ... managing to get more information out of routes

Bootstrap.php

<?php namespace app;

/**
 * 
 */

use \Slim\App as App;
use \Slim\Views\Lightncandy as Lightncandy;

define(BLANK, '');

class Bootstrap {

  function __construct ($boot_app = true) {

    $env    = file_exists('env') ? file_get_contents('env') : 'development';
    $config = Spyc::YAMLLoad( __DIR__ .'/config.yaml');
    date_default_timezone_set(isset($config['timezone']) ? $config['timezone'] : 'UTC');

    define(APP_FOLDER, realpath(__DIR__.'/../app'));
    define(VIEWS_PATH, realpath(APP_FOLDER .'/../app/views'));
    define(CONTROLLERS_PATH, realpath(APP_FOLDER .'/../app/controllers'));

    $this->config = isset($config[$env]) ? $config[$env] : array();

    if (!$boot_app) return;

    $this->app = new App(array(
      'mode'               => $this->opt('mode', 'development'),
      'debug'              => $this->opt('debug', true),
      'cookies.lifetime'   => $this->opt('lifetime', '30 minutes'),
      'cookies.secret_key' => $this->opt('secret', '184p0')
    ));

    $this->app->register(new Lightncandy(VIEWS_PATH, array()));

    $this->register_controllers();

    $this->register_routes();

    $this->app->run();
  }

  protected function opt ($value, $value2 = '', $default = '') {
    if (is_array($value))
      return isset($value[$value2]) ? $value[$value2] : $default;
    $default = $value2;
    return isset($this->config[$value]) ? $this->config[$value] : $default;
  }

  function register_controllers () {
    $iterator    = new RecursiveIteratorIterator(new RecursiveDirectoryIterator(CONTROLLERS_PATH));
    $controllers = new RegexIterator($iterator, '/.*\.php$/', RegexIterator::GET_MATCH);
    foreach ($controllers as $controller) {
      $ctrl = str_replace(
        array(APP_FOLDER, '/', '.php'), array(BLANK, '\\', ''), $controller[0]
      );
      $this->app[substr($ctrl, 1)] = function ($app) use ($ctrl) {
        return new $ctrl($app);
      };
    }
  }

  function register_routes () {
    $app = &$this->app;
    // usersdoom
    $app->get('/users', 'controllers\User:index')->setName('users');
    // ... a bunch of them ...
  }
}

$boot = new Bootstrap();

?>

composer.json

{
  "minimum-stability": "dev",
  "require": {
    "slim/slim":                   "dev-develop",
    "endel/slim-lightncandy-view": "dev-master",
    "mustangostang/spyc":          "0.5.1"
  },
  "autoload": {
    "psr-4": {
      "" : [ "app/" ]
    }
  }
}

config.yaml

controllers: app/controllers
views: app/views

development:
  mode: development
  debug: true
  secret: y4mLESArWNqzSsSzUZXS

staging:
  mode: test
  debug: true
  secret: vrRfD9uLReDDdxF2zW29

production:
  mode: production
  debug: false
  secret: mrHDgrbkkR9yHVpJtB2H

Controller.php

<?php namespace app/core;

/**
 * core/Controller
 */

class Controller {
  
  private $app;
  private $info;

  function __construct ($instance) {
    $this->$app = $instance;

    // get controller name and method, figure it out!
    $this->info = array(
      'controller' => '??',
      'action'     => '????'
    );
  }

  function __call ($name, args) {

  }

  protected function view ($view, $args = array()) {
    $this->app['view']->render($file, array_merge($args, $this->info));
  }
}

?>

User.php

<?php namespace app/controllers;

/**
 * controllers/User
 */

class User extends core\Controller {
  
  function __construct ($instance) {
    parent::__construct($instance);
  }

  protected function index ($req, $res) {
    $this->view('index', array('title' => 'Hallo aus Brazil'));
  }
}

?>