PHP-DI/PHP-DI

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

PHP-DI is a dependency injection container for PHP that emphasizes practicality, autowiring, and expressive PHP-based configuration. It is framework-agnostic, PSR-11 compliant, and supports container compilation for production performance.

Use cases

• manage dependency injection in a PHP application
• autowire classes from constructor type-hints
• bind interfaces to implementations in a service container
• replace Pimple or another PSR-11 container
• configure services with PHP-based definitions instead of YAML or XML
• integrate a DI container with Slim or Symfony

When to choose

• you want a PSR-11 compliant container with zero-config autowiring
• you prefer configuration written in PHP with IDE autocompletion and static analysis
• you need a framework-agnostic container that scales from small apps to modular systems
• you want compiled containers for optimal production performance

When to avoid

• your framework already ships with its own DI container you are happy with
• you need dependency injection in a non-PHP project
• you are on PHP below 8.0 (PHP-DI 7 requirement)

Facets

library · maturity stable

middleware developer-tools web-development backend developer-tools php dependency-injection ioc-container psr-11 autowiring service-container

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