Simple php router

It is an easy-to-use router for your application in php.

Full documentation is available in docs-<version> branch

Getting started

Before we start working with the router, we need to set up our application. To do this, we need to create a file in the root of the project .htaccess file in the root of the project, where we will write a few lines of code for the Apache server.

RewriteEngine on

# Ignore files
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.css|\.html|\.png|\.gif|\.jpeg)

# Here we redirect all calls to the server 
# to the main file of the application.
RewriteRule ^ index.php

The next step is to initialize the router. To do this, write the following code.

use router\Router; // Connecting the router namespace

Next, create a new router using new Router()

$router = new Router();

The router has such methods as get, post, put, patch, delete. You can use them as follows:

$router->get('/', function () {
    echo 'Hello world';
});

The next and last step is to start the router using the resolve method.

$url = Router::getPath();
$method = Router::getMethod();

$router->resolve($url, $method);

In the code above, we learned the $method and $url from the request. It is not necessary to use the static methods getPath() and getMethod(), but we recommend that you write these methods in your code to make it easier to understanding of the algorithm.

Thus, we have created an application that shows Hello world using the Router class.