Sinatra clone in PHP

Looks promising! I've actually been developing my own Sinatra clone in PHP5. I've called it "Slim". It has RESTful GET, POST, PUT, DELETE routing. It has before and after callbacks. It has Page Not Found handling, halting, helpers to set custom response codes, and easy-to-extend templating (use Smarty, Twig, or whatever you want). See more at:<p>Documentation: <a href="http://slim.joshlockhart.com/" rel="nofollow">http://slim.joshlockhart.com/</a><p>GitHub (with Download): <a href="http://github.com/codeguy/Slim" rel="nofollow">http://github.com/codeguy/Slim</a><p>Still very much a work in progress, but thought I'd go ahead and get the word out.<p>Enjoy! Josh

Aside from this being "Sinatra clone" #100, I think most people do not understand that Sinatra is about much more than its query and before/after-filter DSL: Its about its plugin API, its great integration into Rack (which PHP doesn't have, middleware solutions or not), its ability to host multiple apps in one process and its large and well-written documentation.<p>It is easy to implement the query API in any language that supports anonymous functions, but that doesn't make it Sinatra.<p>This one is not even a good example of a clone: its really bare, only implements the minimal set to "look like sinatra". It doesn't even have a good request or response object.

<a href="http://www.sinatrarb.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.sinatrarb.com/</a><p>For those (like me) that had no clue what sinatra was before this.

I've written one too called Hoboken, the city where Sinatra was bron. I don't have a complete set of docs, but it's definitely useable.<p><a href="http://github.com/leftnode/Hoboken" rel="nofollow">http://github.com/leftnode/Hoboken</a><p>My personal site uses it: <a href="http://leftnode.com" rel="nofollow">http://leftnode.com</a><p>I'll have to check this out to see how it competes :).

Some other ones:<p><a href="http://github.com/sofadesign/limonade" rel="nofollow">http://github.com/sofadesign/limonade</a><p><a href="http://github.com/jim/fitzgerald" rel="nofollow">http://github.com/jim/fitzgerald</a><p><a href="http://github.com/fabpot/Silex" rel="nofollow">http://github.com/fabpot/Silex</a> (based on Symfony 2)

This is pretty early but nifty, and might help us in our ongoing efforts to move away from our Ruby prototypes. Needs helpers and halting to be properly useful, but will definitely keep an eye on it.

What those PHP guys are unable to understand, is that all the coolness and beauty of Sinatra comes from the lack of () {} $ and other meaningless (it this context) symbols and words, like function and echo.<p>The same effect is in Clojure, but it is a little bit more difficult to explain.<p>They're lost the beauty of Lisp (especially Scheme) when they broke the clarity and unambiguity of the syntax pushing all those foreign symbols into it. Moreover, they also renamed and broke most of common idioms, using words that could be better as a variable names instead of keywords.<p>So, it is not a Lisp dialect, even not so-called Lisp-1. It is just yet another JVM-targeted pseudo-functional language, which, OK, looks like lisp to those who never seen a Lisp before.<p>But, its cool (and ugly), I must admit. ^_^