wepesi/routing

A lightweight and simple object oriented PHP Router. Built by (Boss Ibrahim Mussa) and Contributors

Features

• Supports GET, POST, PUT, DELETE,PATCH request methods
• Routing shorthands such as get(), post(), put(), …
• Static Route Patterns
• Dynamic Route Patterns: Dynamic PCRE-based Route Patterns or Dynamic Placeholder-based Route Patterns
• Optional Route Subpatterns
• Subrouting / Group Routing
• Allowance of Class@Method calls
• Before Route Middlewares
• Before Router Middlewares / Before App Middlewares
• API Groupe Routing
• Supports X-HTTP-Method-Override header
• Custom 404
• Works fine in subfolders

Prerequisites/Requirements

• PHP 7.4 or greater
• URL Rewriting

Installation

Installation is possible using Composer

composer require wepesi/routing

Demo

A demo is included in the demo folder. Serve it using your favorite web server, or using PHP 7.4+'s built-in server by executing php -S localhost:8080 on the shell. A .htaccess for use with Apache is included.

Usage

Create an instance of \Wepesi\Routing\Router, define some routes onto it, and run it.

// Require composer autoloader
require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

// Create Router instance
$router = new \Wepesi\Routing\Router();

// Define routes
// ...

// Run it!
$router->run();

Routing

Wepesi/routing supports GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE HTTP request methods. Pass in a single request method.

When a route matches against the current URL (e.g. $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']), the attached route handling function will be executed. The route handling function must be a callable. Only the first route matched will be handled. When no matching route is found, a 404 handler will be executed.

Routing Shorthands

Shorthands for single request methods are provided:

$router->get('pattern', function() { /* ... */ });
$router->post('pattern', function() { /* ... */ });
$router->put('pattern', function() { /* ... */ });
$router->delete('pattern', function() { /* ... */ });

Note: Routes must be hooked before $router->run(); is being called.

Route Patterns

Route Patterns can be static or dynamic:

• Static Route Patterns contain no dynamic parts and must match exactly against the path part of the current URL.
• Dynamic Route Patterns contain dynamic parts that can vary per request. The varying parts are named subpatterns and are defined using either Perl-compatible regular expressions (PCRE) or by using placeholders

Static Route Patterns

A static route pattern is a regular string representing a URI. It will be compared directly against the path part of the current URL.

Examples:

• /about
• /contact

Usage Examples:

// This route handling function will only be executed when visiting http(s)://www.example.org/about
$router->get('/about', function() {
    echo 'About Page Contents';
});

Dynamic Placeholder-based Route Patterns

This type of Route Patterns are the same as Dynamic PCRE-based Route Patterns, but with one difference: they don't use regexes to do the pattern matching but they use the more easy placeholders instead. Placeholders are strings surrounded by collumn, e.g. :name.

Examples:

• /movies/:id
• /profile/:username

Placeholders are easier to use than PRCEs, but offer you less control as they internally get translated to a PRCE that matches any character (.*).

$router->get('/movies/:movieId/photos/:photoId', function($movieId, $photoId) {
    echo 'Movie #' . $movieId . ', photo #' . $photoId;
});

Note: the name of the placeholder should match with the name of the parameter that is passed into the route handling function.

Dynamic PCRE-based Route Patterns

This type of Route Patterns contain dynamic parts which can vary per request. The varying parts are named subpatterns and are defined using regular expressions.

Usage Examples:

// This route handling function will only be executed when visiting http(s)://www.example.org/movies/3
$router->get('/movies/:id', function($id) {
    echo 'Get a movie by ID:'.$id;
})->with('id','[0-9]+');

Commonly used PCRE-based subpatterns within Dynamic Route Patterns are:

• \d+ = One or more digits (0-9)
• \w+ = One or more word characters (a-z 0-9 _)
• [a-z0-9_-]+ = One or more word characters (a-z 0-9 _) and the dash (-)
• .* = Any character (including /), zero or more
• [^/]+ = Any character but /, one or more

When multiple subpatterns are defined, the resulting route handling parameters are passed into the route handling 'with` function in the order they are defined in:

// http(s)://www.example.org/articles/12-nyiragongo-volcano`
$router->get('/artilces/:id-:name', function($id, $title) {
    echo 'Articles #' . $id . ', title #' . $title;
})
->with('id','[0-9]+')
->with('title','[a-z\0-9]+');

This will be like a kind of validation of your parameters.

Subrouting / Groupe Routing

Use $router->group($baseroute, $fn) to group a collection of routes in to a subroute pattern. The subroute pattern is prefixed into all following routes defined in the scope. e.g. Mounting a callback $fn onto /movies will prefix /movies onto all following routes.

$router->group('/movies', function() use ($router) {

    // will result in '/movies/'
    $router->get('/', function() {
        echo 'movies overview';
    });

    // will result in '/movies/id'
    $router->get('/:id', function($id) {
        echo 'movie id ' . $id;
    });

});

Nesting of subroutes is possible, just define a second $router->group() in the callable that's already contained within a preceding $router->group().

$router->group('/articles', function() use ($router) {

    // will result in '/articles/'
    $router->get('/', function() {
        echo 'articles overview';
    });
    
    //
	$router->group('/themes', function() use ($router) {	
	    // will result in '/articles/themes'
	    $router->get('/', function() {
	        echo 'Articles themes overview';
	    });	
	    // will result in '/articles/themes/4'
	    $router->get('/:id', function($id) {
	        echo 'Articles themes detail id: ' . $id;
	    });
	
	});

});

Class#Method calls

We can route to the class action like so:

$router->get('/users/:id', '\Wepesi\Controller\UserController#get_users_detail');

or

$router->get('/users/:id', [\Wepesi\Controller\UserController::class,'get_users_detail']);

When a request matches the specified route URI, the get_users method on the UserController class will be executed. The defined route parameters will be passed to the class method.

The method can be static(not-recommend) or non-static (recommend). In case of a non-static method, a new instance of the class will be created.

$router->get('/users/profile', \Wepesi\Controller\Users::profile());

Note: In case you are using static method, dont pass as string or in array.

Before Route Middleware

wepesi/routing supports Before Route Middlewares, which are executed before the route handling is processed.

$router->get('/articles/:id', function($id) {
    echo "article id is:".$id;
})->middleware(function($id){
	if(!filter_var($id,FILTER_VALIDATE_INT)){
	    echo "you should provide an integer";
	    exit;
	}
});

Route middlewares are route specific, one or middleware can be set and will be executed before route function.

$router->get('/admin/:id', function($id) {
    echo "admin id is:".$id;
})->middleware(function($id){
	print_r("First middleware");
})->middleware(function($id){
	print_r("Second middleware");
})->middleware(function($id){
	print_r("Last middleware before Route function");
});

API Groupe Routing

You can define your API route inside the api method, and will auto complet api route fro you.

$router->api('/v1',function() use($router){
    $router->group('/users',function() use($router){
        $router->get('/',[appController::class,'getUsers']);
    });
});
// output
// /api/v1/users

Overriding the request method

Use X-HTTP-Method-Override to override the HTTP Request Method. Only works when the original Request Method is POST. Allowed values for X-HTTP-Method-Override are PUT, DELETE, or PATCH.

Custom 404

The default 404 handler sets a 404 status code and exits. You can override this default 404 handler by using $router->set404(callable);

$router->set404(function() {
    header('HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found');
    // ... do something special here
});

You can also define multiple custom routes e.x. you want to define an /api route, you can print a custom 404 page:

$router->set404('**)?', function() {
    header('HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found');
    header('Content-Type: application/json');

    $jsonArray = array();
    $jsonArray['status'] = "404";
    $jsonArray['status_text'] = "route not defined";

    echo json_encode($jsonArray);
});

Also supported are Class@Method callables:

$router->set404([appController::class,'notfound']);

The 404 handler will be executed when no route pattern was matched to the current URL.

💡 You can also manually trigger the 404 handler by calling $router->trigger404()

Integration with other libraries

Integrate other libraries with wepesi/routing by making good use of the use keyword to pass dependencies into the handling functions.

$view = new \Wepesi\View();

$router->get('/', function() use ($view ) {
    $view->assign('email','[email protected]');
    $view->assign('github','bim-g');
    $view->display("/profile.php");
});

$router->run();

Given this structure it is still possible to manipulate the output from within the After Router Middleware

A note on working with PUT

There's no such thing as $_PUT in PHP. One must fake it:

$router->put('/movies/:username', function($username) {
    // Fake $_PUT
    $_PUT  = array();
    parse_str(file_get_contents('php://input'), $_PUT);
    // ...
});

Subfolder support

$router->api('/v1',function() use($router){
    include __DIR__.'/router/users.php';
});

License

wepesi/routing is released under the Apache-2.0 license. See the enclosed LICENSE for details.