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• Minimum PHP version has been bumped up to 8.1
• Bumped rotexsoft/slim-skeleton-mvc-tools to ^5.0.0
• Method signature enhancements in Hello controller
  • Changed actionIndex()
  • to actionIndex(): ResponseInterface|string
  • to be compatible with the PHP 8.1 compliant signature of the same method in \SlimMvcTools\Controllers\BaseController
• Stricter type hinting in various parts of the code base

Full Changelog: https://github.com/rotexsoft/slim-skeleton-mvc-app/compare/4.0.0...5.0.0

• Now based on Slim 4

• Added as much strict typing as possible all over the code base in class property declarations, class method & stand-alone function parameters and return types

• The namespace prefix Slim3MvcTools has been renamed to SlimMvcTools

• Added Localization functionality out of the box using the Vespula Locale package

  • see ./config/languages/, \SlimMvcTools\Controllers\BaseController->updateSelectedLanguage() : void & the default layout template file & some views like the login form for how this feature has been implemented

• Added ./src/AppErrorHandler.php which should be used for error handling logic

• \SlimMvcTools\Container is the PSR-11 compliant container that now ships with this framework

• Nyholm PSR7 & Nyholm PSR7 Server are the PSR 7 implementations that now ship with this framework

• UI & JS frameworks like the Zurb Foundation front-end framework (http://foundation.zurb.com/) and jQuery have been removed and no longer ship with this package. It just ships with minimal HTML, CSS & Vanilla JavaScript.

• PHP 7.4 is the minimum required version

• Switched from BSD-2 to BSD-3 license

• The following settings have been removed from ./config/app-settings.php

  • httpVersion, responseChunkSize, outputBuffering, determineRouteBeforeAppMiddleware, routerCacheFile, bind_options & ldap_server_addr

• The following settings have been added to ./config/app-settings.php

  • logErrors, logErrorDetails, app_base_path, error_template_file, use_mvc_routes, mvc_routes_http_methods, auto_prepend_action_to_action_method_names, default_controller_class_name, default_action_name, error_handler_class, html_renderer_class, json_renderer_class, log_renderer_class, xml_renderer_class

• Keys for items registered in the container instance defined in ./config/dependencies.php are now constants defined in \SlimMvcTools\ContainerKeys

  • The items with the following keys (errorHandler, errorHandlerClass, notFoundHandler, notFoundHandlerClass, notAllowedHandler & notAllowedHandlerClass) in the dependencies file for version 3 are no longer present in version 4 and their previous functionality can easily be implemented in \SlimSkeletonMvcApp\AppErrorHandler->__invoke(...)

  • A local object & 2 factories that create new instances of PSR 7 Request & Response objects have been added to ./config/dependencies.php with the following keys:

    • ContainerKeys::LOCALE_OBJ, ContainerKeys::NEW_REQUEST_OBJECT & ContainerKeys::NEW_RESPONSE_OBJECT

• The default value of session.save_path in config/ini-settings-dist.php is now ./tmp/session

• ./config/routes-and-middlewares.php has been revamped to work with Slim 4

• ./documentation/MOVIE_CATALOG_APP_WALK_THROUGH.md, ./documentation/MVCFUNCTIONALITY.md & ./documentation/QUICKSTART.md have been updated to reflect all the changes in this release

• ./src/layout-templates/error-template.php has been added and is meant to be used as the layout template for displaying error pages like HTTP 404 not found, etc.

• A $controller_object variable which is a reference to the controller instance currently being invoked is now available in all views and layouts rendered via the BaseController's renderLayout & renderView methods

  • s3MVC_MakeLink has been removed. You should use $controller_object->makeLink($path) in your view & layout files instead

Full Changelog: https://github.com/rotexsoft/slim-skeleton-mvc-app/compare/3.0.3...4.0.0

• Updated documentation and references to be specific to Slim 3

Renamed s3mvc-create-controller* to smvc-create-controller* in prep for slim 4 upgrade

• Added commands under the scripts section of the composer.json file (that gets created for each application) to create the following files if they do not exist: .htaccess, env.php and app-settings.php

• Updated the quickstart guide

• Added a view controller-classes-by-action-methods-report.php to support the new actionRoutes in \Slim3MvcTools\Controllers\BaseController

• Bumped minimum PHP Requirement to 7.2
• Updated composer dependencies

• Type Hinting the Hello Controller constructor with \Psr\Container\ContainerInterface now

• Updated requirement to rotexsoft/slim3-skeleton-mvc-tools version 2.1.*

• Refactored ./public/index.dist.php which is used to generate ./public/index.php when a project is created