HTTP Responses

Basic Responses

Of course, all routes and controllers should return some kind of response to be sent back to the user's browser. MiniPHP provides several different ways to return responses. The most basic response is simply returning a string from a route or controller:

$app->get('/test', function () {
    return "Hello Mini";
});

The given string will automatically be converted into an HTTP response by the framework.

Response Objects

All routes and controller actions, you will be returning a full MiniPHP\Response instance in second parameter. Returning a full Response instance allows you to customize the response's HTTP status code and headers.

On the other hand you can get access Response object by global response() function.

class Response{
    public getBody(): mixed
    public setBody($data): Response
    public withJSON($data): Response
    public withStatus($data): Response
    public getStatusCode($data): Response
    public view($template, array $payload = []): string
}

Json respons

$app->get('/test', function () {
    $cats = [
        ["id" => "1", "name" => 'eni'],
        ["id" => "2", "name" => 'mini'],
        ["id" => "3", "name" => 'bini'],
    ]; // There are my three pet cats 😘

    return response()->withJSON($cats);
});


// OR

$app->get('/test', function (Request $request, Response $response) {
    $cats = [
        ["id" => "1", "name" => 'eni'],
        ["id" => "2", "name" => 'mini'],
        ["id" => "3", "name" => 'bini'],
    ]; // There are my three pet cats 😘

    return $response->withJSON($cats);
});

Set StatusCode to respons

use MiniPHP\StatusCodes;
use MiniPHP\Request;
use MiniPHP\Response;

$app->get('/test', function (Request $request, Response $response) {
    $cats = [
        ["id" => "1", "name" => 'eni'],
        ["id" => "2", "name" => 'mini'],
        ["id" => "3", "name" => 'bini'],
    ]; // There are my three pet cats 😘

    return $response
            ->withJSON($cats)
            ->withStatus(StatusCodes::HTTP_OK);
});

Render template

$app->get('/test', function () {
    $cats = [
        ["id" => "1", "name" => 'eni'],
        ["id" => "2", "name" => 'mini'],
        ["id" => "3", "name" => 'bini'],
    ]; // There are my three pet cats 😘

    return response()->view('welcome' , ['cats' => cats]);
});