Question

Bascially over years I have developed my own framework. What it lacks it’s a central routing system.
I would like to integrate a standalone routing library to my framework, instead to reinvent the wheel.

Is there somewhere a standalone php routing library?
If there isn’t can you suggest any guideline for its developing?

I would like something like F3 framework:

$route->add( 'article/view/[0-9]+' );  //> Call Article->view(); (website.net/article/id/123)
$route->add( 'email', 'email.php' ); //> Run email.php (website.net/email)

Edit

I have developed on my own. Here the example usage:

   // index.php

   require 'router.php';

   $router = new Router();

   $router
     //> It will require controllers/article.php and call one of the view,etc method
     ->add('(article)/(view|edit|delete|add)/([0-9]+)')

     //> Same thing as before, but this time we use underscore as separator
     //> It will require controllers/entry.php and call view method
     ->add('(entry)_(view)_([0-9]+)')

     //> Or you can require custom file like this
     ->add( '(myCustomPage)' , '/controllers/myCustomPath/myPage.php' )

     ->dispatch();

If you need a simple controller you can run directy a function without having to specify a class. Example:

   // myCustomController.php
   function myCustomController($id) {
     echo 'I am the Custom Controller';
   }

   // index.php
   $router
      ->add('(myCustomController)/([0-9]+)');

   // The routing system will detect there is a function and will call it directly.
   // Otherwise will just instanciate a new myCustomController() object

You can of course use Search Engine Friendly URLs like this:

   //> This will match something like this: article/123/your-title-here
   ->add('(article)/([0-9]+)/[a-z0-9-]+')

You can run custom method from custom controller like this:

   ->add('(ctrlname)/(methodname)/(params)', array('CustomControllerName','CustomMethod') );

Source: http://pastebin.com/9F02GEyN

Answer 1

You may either use Symfony Routing component, or brilliant klein.php router, which is a Sinatra-inspired tool wrapped in a single PHP file.