A “Breif” PHP Example with Bref

This is the basic example using the Bref plugin with the Serverless framework. Bref creates a runtime for PHP on AWS so you can use PHP to write out your functions instead of JavaScript.

More information on Bref is available here.

This is the serverless.yml file:

service: php-app

provider:
    name: aws
    region: us-east-1
    runtime: provided.al2

plugins:
    - ./vendor/bref/bref

functions:
    app:
        handler: index.php
        description: 'Just a fun test app...'
        layers:
            - ${bref:layer.php-74-fpm}
        events:
            -   httpApi: '*'

# Exclude files from deployment
package:
    patterns:
        - '!node_modules/**'
        - '!tests/**'

This is the index.php file:

<?php
// PHP associative arrays!
echo json_encode(
	[
		'name' => 'Joan Smith',
		'dob'  => 'January 1, 1970',
		'snack' => 'pb cup',
	]
);