README

AltaRouter is a fork of AltoRouter, light weighted package adding route attributes capabilities and efficient route caching and checking mechanism

Usage:

use Route;

// map homepage controller
#[Route(method: 'get', route: 'home', name: 'home-page')]
public function home()
{
    ...
}

// Route matching
// Optional parameters 'route' and 'httpMethod', match could fetch them directly from $_SERVER

$match = $this->match($route, $httpMethod);
...

AltaRouter Features

• Routes created automatically by AltaRouter using attribute mechanism
• Routes cached in a php file, this file is rebuild if the controller file of the requested route more recent than cache file
• Instead of multiple 'map' call, a single include with all routes in an array is done at init

And of course, as AltoRouter

• Can be used with all HTTP Methods
• Dynamic routing with named route parameters
• Reversed routing
• Flexible regular expression routing (inspired by Sinatra)
• Custom regexes

This doc covers only AltaRouter usage with php attributes, refer to the AltoRouter documentation for everything else

Getting started

You need PHP >= 8.0 to use AltoRouter.

AltaRouter installation

AltaRouter respect PSR4 autoloading rules. The best way to include AltaRouter in your project is to use composer

composer require altarouter/altarouter

Follow Rewrite all requests to AltoRouter explanations to redirect http requests to altarouter

Route mapping

Route mapping could be done using 'map' method, see Map your routes for usage explanations

AltaRouter provides you the capability to declare routes on top of the controller:

#[Route(method: method, route: url, name: routeName)

Description of parameters:

method

• (string) : 'get', 'post', 'put', 'delete', ...
• (array) : ['get', 'post']

route:

• (string) : url of the route, like 'account/rights'

name:

• (string optional) : name of the route. The route name is mandatory if you want to build later url routes for buttons or anchors

Match requests amon defined routes

The route matching is identical at those defined in Altorouter docs : Match requests and Process the request your preferred way

Contributors

• Danny van Kooten
• Koen Punt
• John Long
• Niahoo Osef

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2012 Danny van Kooten hi@dannyvankooten.com

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