In a post to his site today Shameer C shows you how to replace Pimple in Slim 3 as an application's dependency injection container. He replaces it with the Aura.Di container, a relatively easy replacement thanks to the container interoperability efforts.

Slim framework is my go-to micro framework for all small projects because of it's simplicity and easiness to use. The new version of this cool framework is just around the corner and they have released RC-1 a few days back. [...] Slim 3 has a default DI Container that extends Pimple. [...] Though Slim uses Pimple by default, we can replace it with any DI container that implements Container Interoperability interface, which is a really great feature. The only caveat is Slim sets some of it's required services from the default container. So we should do it by ourself when we use a different library.

He starts by talking a bit about the Aura.Di container and how it's different than what Pimple has to offer. He then links to a small library that makes the bridge between Slim 3 and Aura.Di and sets up the services Slim needs to operate correctly. He then steps through the code needed to integrate this into a simple Slim application based on this skeleton. Most of the work is done in the dependencies.php file where Slim's needs are set up, configured and injected into the container.