ZestRouter

ZestRouter is a small but powerful routing class for php

<?php 

use Lablnet\ZestRouter;

require_once "../vendor/autoload.php";

$router = new ZestRouter;

//Namespaces uses for loading controllers olny
//$router->setDefaultNamespace("App\Controllers\\");

$router->get('', function () {
    echo 'Example route using closure';
});
/*
//OR
$router->add('', function () {
    echo 'Example route using closure';
},'GET');
*/
$router->get('test','Home@index');
/*
 //OR
 $router->get('test',['controller' => 'Home', 'action' => 'index']);
 //OR
  $router->add('test',['controller' => 'Home', 'action' => 'index'],'GET');

*/
//Dispatch/Process the request automatically for mannually dispatch request take a look at Process Request section
$router->dispatch($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']);

Features

• Can be used with all HTTP Methods
• Flexible regular expression routing
• Custom regexes
• Router with controllers by namespaces
• Routers using closure

install

Run the command in terminal/cmd

# Getting started

## Requirements

- PHP 7 or newest
- Composer

## Rewrite all requests

### Apache (.htaccess)

Remove the question mark from the request but maintain the query string

RewriteEngine On

Uncomment the following line if your public folder isn't the web server's root

RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-l RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?$1 [L,QSA]

### Nginx (nginx.conf)

location / {

if (!-f $request_filename){
    set $rule_0 1$rule_0;
}   
if (!-d $request_filename){
    set $rule_0 2$rule_0;
}
if ($rule_0 = "21"){
    rewrite ^/(.*)$ /index.php?$1 last;
}   

}

## Adding Routes

By now, you should have rewrite all requests

### simple (default way)
there are many to two ways to add the routes

#### Using add method

$router->add('', function () {
    echo "Welcome";
},'GET'); 

The `add()` method accepts the following parameters.

`$route` (string)
This is the route pattern to match against. This can be a plain string, a custom regex.

`$params` (array|string|Closure)
This is paramter for controllers and controller method or closure
(array) => ['controller' => 'Home', 'action' => 'index'] 
(string) => "Home@index" 
(closure) => function () { echo "Welcome"; }

`$method` (string)
This is a pipe-delimited string of the accepted HTTP requests methods.

Example: GET|POST|PATCH|PUT|DELETE

#### Using rests method

$router->get('', function () {
    echo "Welcome";
}); 

there are 5 request methods supports
`get(),post(),put(),patch(),delete()``

These methods accepts the following parameters.

`$route` (string)
This is the route pattern to match against. This can be a plain string, a custom regex.

`$params` (array|string|Closure)
This is paramter for controllers and controller method or closure
(array) => ['controller' => 'Home', 'action' => 'index'] 
(string) => "Home@index" 
(closure) => function () { echo "Welcome"; }

## Example adding the routes

// add homepage using callable $router->get( '/home', function() {

require __DIR__ . '/views/home.php';

});

// add users details page using controller@action string $router->get( 'users/{id:[0-9]+}', 'UserController@showDetails' );

For quickly adding multiple routes, you can use the addRoutes method. This method accepts an array or any kind of traversable.

$router->addRoutes(array( array('users/{username:\w+}', 'users@view', 'get'), array('users/{id:\d+}', 'users@update', 'PATCH'), array('users/{id:\d+}', 'users@delete', 'DELETE') ));

# Matching Requests

To match the current request, just call the `customDispatch()` method without any parameters.

$match = $router->customDispatch();

If a match was found, the `customDispatch()` method will return an associative array

# Processing Requests

ZestRouter process requests for you but so you are free to use the method you prefer. To help you get started, here's a simplified example using closures.

//Add the routes $router->get('', function () {

echo 'Example route using closure';

}); $router->get('user/{id:\d+}', function ($args) {

echo 'Example route using closure with params id: ' .$args['id'];

});

// match current request url $match = $router->customDispatch(); if ($match && is_callable( $match['callable'] )) {

call_user_func( $match['callable'], $match ); 

} else {

// no route was matched
echo '404 Not Found';

}