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Guzzle vs Slim: What are the differences?
What is Guzzle? PHP HTTP client that makes it easy to send HTTP requests and trivial to integrate with web services. Guzzle is a PHP HTTP client that makes it easy to send HTTP requests and trivial to integrate with web services.
What is Slim? A PHP micro framework. Slim is easy to use for both beginners and professionals. Slim favors cleanliness over terseness and common cases over edge cases. Its interface is simple, intuitive, and extensively documented — both online and in the code itself.
Guzzle and Slim can be primarily classified as "Microframeworks (Backend)" tools.
Guzzle and Slim are both open source tools. It seems that Guzzle with 16.9K GitHub stars and 1.94K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Slim with 9.92K GitHub stars and 1.84K GitHub forks.
Coderus, WebbyLab, and Die Coder GmbH are some of the popular companies that use Slim, whereas Guzzle is used by Wireless Logic, Cherry, and Prombox. Slim has a broader approval, being mentioned in 26 company stacks & 19 developers stacks; compared to Guzzle, which is listed in 10 company stacks and 7 developer stacks.
Pros of Guzzle
Pros of Slim
- Microframework32
- API27
- Open source21
- Php20
- Fast11
- Restful & fast framework8
- Easy Setup, Great Documentation7
- Clear and straightforward5
- Good document to upgrade from previous version5
- Modular4
- Dependency injection3
- Easy to learn2
- Composer2