Fast Route VS no-framework-tutorial

Adding https://github.com/nikic/FastRoute for comparison

Just to show an alternative: https://github.com/nikic/FastRoute

How hard did you look? There are plenty out there. FastRoute, Phroute, based on FastRoute, with basic middleware, League/Route - routing with middleware, using FastRoute, PSR 7 & 15, Slim Framework, at it's core, it like League/Route, etc. None of these require a full framework to use.

I'd recommend looking at the routers for popular, simpler frameworks (both documentation and code) such as Slim. Also look at FastRoute which is the basis for most modern routers.

Using a router library like FastRoute or Phroute to show the example

I've just recently started using https://github.com/nikic/FastRoute and it seems to work pretty well

I think a more popular one like https://github.com/nikic/FastRoute would benefit someone learning more than Aura.

The basics is the RouteCollection - https://github.com/nikic/FastRoute/blob/master/src/RouteCollector.php

Nikita Popov, author of FastRoute wrote a pretty good and complete article about how it works.

I myself learned by following the great "no-framework-tutorial": https://github.com/PatrickLouys/no-framework-tutorial Disclaimer: The last one is about 7 years old, so some things have changed, but all in all the information there is still valid.

No framework tutorial

Here's an all-in-one github repo that I found to be a nice build for the fundamentals: PatrickLouys/no-framework-tutorial

Use libraries or a micro framework if you are hesitant on using a full framework. Nothing wrong with Slim and some other libraries. Or bundle some libraries together to make your own slim (pun intended) framework - like this or this.

https://github.com/PatrickLouys/no-framework-tutorial also got turned into a book.

This tutorial (and subsequently the book) helped me a lot when learning OOPHP.

Do you already know how backends work? Maybe this can be a good read. Otherwise just look up the basic syntax and some quirks and you will be fine.

Search for "PHP without a framework" to find articles such as https://github.com/PatrickLouys/no-framework-tutorial that will show you how to "fill in the blanks" with libraries or simple code, or use a "microframework" such as Slim.