Simple PHP router

Simple, fast PHP router - easy to load in through composer and heavily inspired by Laravel.

Installation

Add the latest version pf Simple PHP Router to your composer.json

{
    "require": {
        "pecee/simple-php-router": "1.*"
    },
    "require-dev": {
        "pecee/simple-php-router": "1.*"
    }
}

Initialising the router

In your index.php require your routes.php and call the routeRequest() method when all your custom routes has been loaded. This will trigger and do the actual routing of the requests.

This is an example of a basic index.php file:

require_once 'routes.php'; // change this to whatever makes sense in your project
	
// Initialise the router
$router = \Pecee\SimpleRouter::GetInstance();
	
// Do the actual routing
$router->routeRequest()

Adding routes

Remember the routes.php file you required in your index.php? This file will contain all your custom rules for routing.

This router is heavily inspired by the Laravel 5.* router, so anything you find in the Laravel documentation should work here as well.

Basic example

using \Pecee\Router;

/*
 * This route will match the url /v1/services/answers/1/
 * 
 * The middleware is just a class that renders before the 
 * Controller or callback is loaded. This is useful for stopping
 * the request, for instance if a user is not authenticated.
 * /

Router::group(['prefix' => 'v1', 'middleware' => '\MyWebsite\Middleware\SomeMiddlewareClass'], function() {

    Router::group(['prefix' => 'services'], function() {

        Router::get('/answers/{id}', 'ControllerAnswers@show');

    });
});

Doing it the object oriented (hardcore) way

The Router class is just a simple helper class that knows how to communicate with the SimpleRouter class. If you are up for a challenge, want the full control or simply just want to create your own Router helper class, this example is for you.

use \Pecee\SimpleRouter;
use \Pecee\Router\RouterRoute;

$router = SimpleRouter::GetInstance();

$route = new RouterRoute('/answer/1', function() {
    die('this callback will match /answer/1');
});

$route->setMiddleware('\HSWebserviceV1\Middleware\AuthMiddleware');
$route->setNamespace('MyWebsite');
$route->setPrefix('v1');

// Add the route to the router
$router->addRoute($route);

Documentation

While I work on a better documentation, please refer to the Laravel 5 routing documentation here:

http://laravel.com/docs/5.1/routing

Easily extendable

The router can be easily extended to customize your needs.