What is Request in Slim Framework?

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Your Slim app’s routes and middleware are given a PSR-7 request object that represents the current HTTP request received by your web server. The request object implements the PSR-7 ServerRequestInterface with which you can inspect and manipulate the HTTP request method, headers, and body.

How to get the Request object : The PSR-7 request object is injected into your Slim application routes as the first argument to the route callback like this:

<?php
use Psr\Http\Message\ResponseInterface as Response;
use Psr\Http\Message\ServerRequestInterface as Request;
use Slim\Factory\AppFactory;

require __DIR__ . '/../vendor/autoload.php';

$app = AppFactory::create();

$app->get('/hello', function (Request $request, Response $response) {
    $response->getBody()->write('Hello World');
    return $response;
});

$app->run();

The PSR-7 request object is injected into your Slim application middleware as the first argument of the middleware callable like this :

<?php

use Psr\Http\Message\ServerRequestInterface as Request;
use Psr\Http\Server\RequestHandlerInterface as RequestHandler;
use Slim\Factory\AppFactory;

require __DIR__ . '/../vendor/autoload.php';

$app = AppFactory::create();

$app->add(function (Request $request, RequestHandler $handler) {
   return $handler->handle($request);
});

// ...define app routes...

$app->run();