Route

Route is a simple, open source PHP router. It's super small (~150 LOC), fast, and has some great annotated source code. This class allows you to just throw it into your project and start using it immediately.

Examples

First, use the Route namespace:

use \core\lib\Route;

Route is not an object, so you can just make direct operations to the class. Here's the Hello World:

Route::get('/', function() {
  echo 'Hello world!';
});

Route::dispatch();

Route also supports lambda URIs, such as:

Route::get('/(:any)', function($slug) {
  echo 'The slug is: ' . $slug;
});

Route::dispatch();

You can also make requests for HTTP methods in Route, so you could also do:

Route::get('/', function() {
  echo 'I'm a GET request!';
});

Route::post('/', function() {
  echo 'I'm a POST request!';
});

Route::any('/', function() {
  echo 'I can be both a GET and a POST request!';
});

Route::dispatch();

Lastly, if there is no route defined for a certain location, you can make Route run a custom callback, like:

Route::error(function() {
  echo '404 :: Not Found';
});

If you don't specify an error callback, Route will just echo 404.

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Example passing to a controller instead of a closure

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It's possible to pass the namespace path to a controller instead of the closure:

For this demo lets say I have a folder called controllers with a demo.php

index.php:

use core\lib\Route;

Route::get('/', 'Controllers\demo@index');
Route::get('page', 'Controllers\demo@page');
Route::get('view/(:num)', 'Controllers\demo@view');

Route::dispatch();

demo.php:

<?php
namespace controllers;

class Demo {

    public function index()
    {
        echo 'home';
    }

    public function page()
    {
        echo 'page';
    }

    public function view($id)
    {
        echo $id;
    }

}

.htaccess(Apache):

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

# Allow any files or directories that exist to be displayed directly
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?$1 [QSA,L]

.htaccess(Nginx):

rewrite ^/(.*)/$ /$1 redirect;

if (!-e $request_filename){
	rewrite ^(.*)$ /index.php break;
}