icRouter

Different approach for standard routing problem. Instead of using regular expressions, matching tree is built.

This library will not work with older versions of PHP. Minimal version is 5.3

Usage

Usings

use IgorCrevar\icRouter\Router;
use IgorCrevar\icRouter\Route;
use IgorCrevar\icRouter\Interfaces\DefImpl\DefaultNodeBuilder;

Create router

$router = new Router(new DefaultNodeBuilder());

Add some routes

$router->setRoutes([
    new Route('simple', '/simple', 
              array('module' => 'simple')),
    new Route('simple_param', '/param/:a', 
              array('module' => 'simple_param', 'a' => 10), 
              array('a' => '\d+')), // a is integer
    new Route('two_params', '/param/hello/:a/some/:b', 
              array('module' => 'two_params', 'a' => 10, 'onemore' => 'time')),
    new Route('two_params_any', '/home/hello/:a/:b/*', 
              array('module' => 'two_params_any', 'a' => 10, 'b' => '10'),
              array('b' => '[01]+')), // b is string / number of 0' and 1'
    new Route('complex_param', '/complex/id_:id',
              array('module' => 'complex_param'),
              array('id' => '\d+')),
    new Route('home', '/*', 
              array('module' => 'home')),
]);

Build route tree

$router->build();

Match

$result = $router->match('/a/b/c/d/e');

$result will be array of matching parameters (key value pairs) if route exists otherwise false is returned

Generate

$result = $router->generate('two_params', array('b' => 'aabb'));

First parameter is route name, second is parameters (key value pairs) array

Route constructor parameters

• name of route
• patterns: Examples: 1. /acount/:id/* - provides functionality for additional parameters 2. /account/:id/:action 3. /account/id_:id Parameter is specified with /:[A-Za-z0-9]+/ Only one parameter is allowed per route segment
• optional default parameters for route (key - value pairs)
• optional regex for parameters in pattern Examples: 1. array('id' => '\d+') - id is integer 2. array('type' => 'car|boat|plane') - type is either car or boat or plane

Tip

For production, because $router->build() is expensive you should cache already built router (APC, serializing, etc...)

Unit Testing

Go to base dir and execute:

phpunit test/RouterTest.php

TODO

perfomance banchmark beetween this library and some regular expression routing library like one from symfony framework or similar.