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A PHP library that provides attribute-based route registration for Slim Framework applications. This library allows you to define routes using PHP 8 attributes on your handler classes and methods, making your code more declarative and organized.

Requirements

• PHP 8.2 or higher
• Slim Framework 4.14 or higher
• composer/class-map-generator 1.6 or higher

Installation

You can install the library via Composer:

composer require blackbonjour/slim-route-registry

Basic Usage

1. Create a Route Handler

Create a class that will handle your route and add the Route attribute to it:

<?php

namespace App\Handlers;

use BlackBonjour\SlimRouteRegistry\Route;
use Psr\Http\Message\ResponseInterface;
use Psr\Http\Message\ServerRequestInterface;

#[Route('GET', '/hello')]
class HelloHandler
{
    public function __invoke(ServerRequestInterface $request, ResponseInterface $response): ResponseInterface
    {
        $response->getBody()->write('Hello, World!');

        return $response;
    }
}

2. Register Routes with the RouteRegistry

In your application bootstrap file:

<?php

use BlackBonjour\SlimRouteRegistry\RouteRegistry;
use Slim\Factory\AppFactory;

require_once __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

// Create Slim App
$app = AppFactory::create();

// Create RouteRegistry with paths to scan for route handlers
// By default, it uses ComposerClassProvider to find classes in the specified paths
$routeRegistry = new RouteRegistry([__DIR__ . '/src/Handlers']);

// Register all routes from the specified paths
$routeRegistry->register($app);

// Run the app
$app->run();

Advanced Usage

Named Routes

You can assign names to your routes for easier URL generation:

#[Route('GET', '/user/{id}', 'user-profile')]
class UserProfileHandler
{
    // ...
}

Multiple HTTP Methods

You can specify multiple HTTP methods for a single route:

#[Route(['GET', 'POST'], '/form')]
class FormHandler
{
    // ...
}

Method-Level Routes

You can also define routes on public methods:

class UserHandler
{
    #[Route('GET', '/users')]
    public function listUsers(ServerRequestInterface $request, ResponseInterface $response): ResponseInterface
    {
        // List users
        return $response;
    }

    #[Route('GET', '/users/{id}')]
    public function getUser(ServerRequestInterface $request, ResponseInterface $response, array $args): ResponseInterface
    {
        // Get specific user
        return $response;
    }
}

Route Arguments

You can pass additional arguments to your routes:

#[Route('GET', '/api/users', 'users-list', arguments: ['version' => 'v1', 'cache' => true])]
class UsersListHandler
{
    // ...
}

These arguments can be used to configure the route or provide additional data to the handler.

Middleware

You can attach middleware to your routes:

#[Route('GET', '/secure', 'secure-area', middlewares: [AuthMiddleware::class])]
class SecureAreaHandler
{
    // ...
}

Redirects

You can define redirects using the Redirect attribute:

#[Redirect('/old-path', '/new-path')]
#[Route('GET', '/new-path')]
class NewPathHandler
{
    // ...
}

You can also specify the HTTP status code for the redirect (defaults to 302):

#[Redirect('/legacy', '/modern', 301)]

When used with a Route attribute, you can omit the destination path to redirect to the route's path:

#[Redirect('/old-path')]
#[Route('GET', '/new-path')]
class NewPathHandler
{
    // ...
}

API Reference

RouteRegistry

The main class responsible for registering routes.

public function __construct(array $paths, ClassProviderInterface $classProvider = new ComposerClassProvider())

• $paths: Array of directory paths to scan for route handler classes
• $classProvider: Instance of ClassProviderInterface (defaults to ComposerClassProvider)

public function register(App $app): void

• $app: Slim Framework App instance

ClassProviderInterface

An interface for classes that provide a list of class names from a given path.

public function provideClasses(string $path): array

• $path: Directory path to scan for classes
• Returns: Array of fully qualified class names

ComposerClassProvider

The default implementation of ClassProviderInterface that uses Composer's ClassMapGenerator to find classes.

public function __construct(ClassMapGenerator $classMapGenerator = new ClassMapGenerator())

• $classMapGenerator: Optional custom instance of Composer's ClassMapGenerator (defaults to a new instance)

public function provideClasses(string $path): array

• $path: Directory path to scan for classes
• Returns: Array of fully qualified class names found in the path
• Throws: DirectoryNotFoundExceptionClass if the path is not a valid directory
• Throws: ClassMapGeneratorExceptionClass if the ClassMapGenerator encounters an error

Route Attribute

#[Attribute(Attribute::TARGET_CLASS | Attribute::TARGET_METHOD | Attribute::IS_REPEATABLE)]
public function __construct(
    array|string $methods,
    string $path,
    ?string $name = null,
    array $arguments = [],
    array $middlewares = [],
    array $redirects = []
)

• $methods: HTTP method(s) as string or array of strings (e.g., 'GET', ['GET', 'POST'])
• $path: URL path pattern (e.g., '/users/{id}')
• $name: Optional route name for URL generation
• $arguments: Array of key-value pairs to be passed to the route
• $middlewares: Array of middleware classes, callables, or string class names
• $redirects: Array of Redirect objects

Redirect Attribute

#[Attribute(Attribute::TARGET_CLASS | Attribute::TARGET_METHOD | Attribute::IS_REPEATABLE)]
public function __construct(
    string $from,
    ?string $to = null,
    int $status = 302
)

• $from: Source path to redirect from
• $to: Destination path (can be null if used with a Route attribute)
• $status: HTTP status code for the redirect (defaults to 302)

License

This library is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.