On the BitExpert blog Stephan Hochdörfer shares a new tool, a PSR-7 compliant middleware, that allow easy integration with your current application of the Prophiler debugging/profiling tool.

Prophiler is a PHP Profiler & Developer Toolbar which is part of the Phalcon project but can also be used as a stand-alone component, kind of like the Symfony Web Debug Toolbar or Z-Ray. What I like about Prophiler is that on the one hand hand it is super easy to install and on the other hand offers a few nice adapters (e.g. PSR-3 logging or Doctrine integration) out-of-the-box.

The middleware is a simple Composer install away. He includes the code you'll need to make the Prophiler instance and how to hook in the middleware for use. His example uses the Zend Framework Stratigility structure but because it's a PSR-7 compliant package, it can integrate just as easily with any PSR-7 framework/library. He also includes a sample of running a request and mentions the automatic addition of the toolbar to the output.

The Zend Framework blog has posted an announcement about a new project they're offering to help make building PSR-7 middleware applications simpler - announcing Expressive.

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of a new project, Expressive!

Expressive allows you to write PSR-7 middleware applications for the web. It is a simple micro-framework built on top of Stratigility, providing: dynamic routing, dependency injection via container-interop, templating and error handling.

The post helps you get a simple application using Expressive up and running via a Composer install and a bit of code. They talk about some of the goals behind Expressive, the interoperability it makes available and how it fits in with the Zend Framework ecosystem. They've released version 0.1.0 already and ask for testing (and bug reports) for this new framework. You can also check out the project documentation for more information about what it offers and the features currently implemented.