Question

oh boy… Hey guys hope all is well.
I’m an iphone/ipad programmer, wanting to create a webservice with a few methods that I could then send json requests to the webservice and make it all jolly.

I’m currently trying to create a web service. This is my host: justhost.com. I understand I wont be able to setup any sort of .net framework since its all linux. I then was told i could however setup a web service with slim or epiphany. Both of which I’ve been told shouldn’t take long at all to setup. 5 mins max? I have however spent the last 2 days trying to make things work with little success.

I stuck with Slim since, in my opinion, it has an easier setup compared with epiphany. I now am testing an hello world example so that I am then able to write something like this in my webpage….

testing.mysite.com/hello/pk

but I’m just getting blank pages. im assuming that my .htaccess file must be correct for any url i write in the address bar with a prefix of my site to not throw a incorrect error page.

This is what my folder directory looks like atm:

And i’ve inserted the .htaccess file that was provided by the Slim framework.

What else do i need to do to make this work. what am i missing. I hope someone can help me with this.

UPDATE 1

This is the error im receiving.. Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_FUNCTION in /home1/dholnot1/public_html/testing/index.php on line 8 I then removed the semi colon at the end of the require statement and that changed the error to this: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in /home1/dholnot1/public_html/testing/index.php on line 5

UPDATE 2

This is my code:

<?php

    require 'Slim/Slim.php';

    $app = new \Slim\Slim();

    //GET route
    $app->get('/hello/:name', function ($name) {
        echo "Hello, $name";
    });

    //POST route
    $app->post('/person', function () {
        //Create new Person
    });

    //PUT route
    $app->put('/person/:id', function ($id) {
        //Update Person identified by $id
    });

    //DELETE route
    $app->delete('/person/:id', function ($id) {
        //Delete Person identified by $id
    });     


    $app->run();
?>

UPDATE 3

I have upgraded php configuration to PHP Version 5.3.18
which means anonymous functions will work now.

this is the new error im getting:
Fatal error: Class ‘Slim\Log’ not found in /home1/dholnot1/public_html/testing/Slim/Slim.php on line 242

i’ve checked in the slim.php file at line 242 and it reads this:

‘log.level’ => \Slim\Log::DEBUG,

Answer 1

Use the code below:

require 'Slim/Slim.php';
\Slim\Slim::registerAutoloader();

$app = new \Slim\Slim();

//GET route
$app->get('/hello/:name', function ($name) {
    echo "Hello, $name";
});

...


$app->run();

• Slim uses namespaces, so you must use $app = new \Slim\Slim()
• Use the autoloader to let Slim handle it’s internal dependencies