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PHP Building Websites with PHP Slim Basics & Twig Templates Routing For Our Project

Myles Hyson
Myles Hyson
8,853 Points
Posted by Myles Hyson
Myles Hyson
8,853 Points

Using Sublime

Using Sublime 3 for this part of the video. I downloaded all the necessary things and I think the code is right. Get an error message instead of the echo string for both the home and contact page. Can somebody please help?

<?php

require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';
date_default_timezone_set("America/New_York");

// $log = new Logger('name');
// $log->pushHandler(new StreamHandler('app.txt', Logger::WARNING));
// $log->addWarning('Oh No');

$app = new \Slim\Slim();

$app->get('/', function(){
    echo "Hello this is the Home Page";
});

$app->get('/contact', function(){
    echo "Hello this is the Contact Page";
});

$app->run();
?>

and here is the .htaccess file

RewriteEngine On

# Some hosts may require you to use the `RewriteBase` directive.
# If you need to use the `RewriteBase` directive, it should be the
# absolute physical path to the directory that contains this htaccess file.
#
# RewriteBase

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^ index.php [QSA,L]

1 Answer

Ted Sumner
PLUS
Ted Sumner
Courses Plus Student 17,967 Points
Ted Sumner
Ted Sumner
Courses Plus Student 17,967 Points

you are missing a little bit on both lines. Add use($app) to both lines like this:

<?php
$app->get('/', function() use($app) {
Myles Hyson
Myles Hyson
8,853 Points
Myles Hyson
Myles Hyson
8,853 Points

Awesome Thanks! That worked. They didn't use that in the video. What does the use($app) do?

Ted Sumner
Ted Sumner
Courses Plus Student 17,967 Points

I think they did use it in the video, at least the one that I watched. It is built in function that is used for aliasing. http://php.net/manual/en/language.namespaces.importing.php

This course does not work without it and the code I wrote when I took the course has it.

Please mark best answer so that other people know the issue is resolved.