Slim could really do with supporting filetype requests.

[redimongo]

So I am trying to create a API for a social networking site, however SLIM by default does not have an easyway for a user to request xml response, or a ymal response.

I understand that this was mainly for PHP and JSON, but surely with other frameworks like api-platform supporting this multi-response making it easier for developers to code for all types of devices and uses.

Is their a plugin that allows a user to define the response that they would like?
Or do I need to make it a URL requirement example: api.site.com/me/photos.xml

and if so there should be a template system in slim that can see the .xml and load the .xml file from the template section.

Please if anyone has done this please leave a link to either documentation or better still tutoral.

Thank

[akrabat]

I'm not sure what you mean by Slim being mainly for JSON as it has no bias whatsoever on the format of data rendered.

Personally, I use rka-content-type-renderer which renders an array into either JSON, XML or HTML based on the Accept Header.

This is a simple Slim app that uses it:

<?php

require __DIR__ . '/../vendor/autoload.php';

$config = [
    'settings' => [
        'displayErrorDetails' => true, // set to false in production
        'addContentLengthHeader' => false,

    ],
];
$app = new \Slim\App($config);

$app->get("/", function ($request, $response, $args) {

    $data = [
        'items' => [
            [
                'name' => 'Alex',
                'is_admin' => true,
            ],
            [
                'name' => 'Robin',
                'is_admin' => false,
            ],
        ],
    ];

    $renderer = new RKA\ContentTypeRenderer\Renderer();
    $response  = $renderer->render($request, $response, $data);

    return $response;
});

// Run!
$app->run();

Then, to output XML, the user simply requests XML via the HTTP Accept header:

$ curl -H "Accept: application/xml" http:/localhost:8888

and the output is:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<root>
  <items>
    <name>Alex</name>
    <is_admin>1</is_admin>
  </items>
  <items>
    <name>Robin</name>
    <is_admin>0</is_admin>
  </items>
</root>

[geggleto]

If you have any other questions regarding this issue, please reopen :)