http-router
A powerful solution as the foundation of your project. (by sunrise-php)
Fast Route
Fast request router for PHP (by nikic)
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| 8.8 | 3.8 | |
| 26 days ago | 2 months ago | |
| PHP | PHP | |
| MIT License | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
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Fast Route
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Composition vs. Inheritance in PHP Frameworks
Another interesting case is the FastRouteDispatcher class in Slim, which extends the GroupCountBased class from the FastRoute library. Although the GroupCountBased class is marked as @final in its docblock, it isn't technically marked with the final keyword in code. This annotation is a convention, signaling that the class should not be extended, even if PHP itself doesn’t enforce it.
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A Faster Router System in PHP
Adding https://github.com/nikic/FastRoute for comparison
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One action page to serve multiple pages? Or individual action pages?
Just to show an alternative: https://github.com/nikic/FastRoute
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Just created a dependency-free lightweight HTTP router
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.
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What the namespace is going on!?
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.
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Structuring REST API
Using a router library like FastRoute or Phroute to show the example
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Seeking recommendation for drop in Router for legacy file based PHP app
I've just recently started using https://github.com/nikic/FastRoute and it seems to work pretty well
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What feature were you coding, when you realized a framework would make it easier?
I think a more popular one like https://github.com/nikic/FastRoute would benefit someone learning more than Aura.
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Optimizing my MVC Routing Class
The basics is the RouteCollection - https://github.com/nikic/FastRoute/blob/master/src/RouteCollector.php
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Evaluating a string like a router does
Nikita Popov, author of FastRoute wrote a pretty good and complete article about how it works.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing http-router and Fast Route you can also consider the following projects:
AltoRouter - PHP routing class. Lightweight yet flexible. Supports REST, dynamic and reversed routing.
SwitchRoute - Generate a PHP script for faster routing :rocket:
Klein - A fast & flexible router
Croute - Convention based routing for PHP
Route - Fast PSR-7 based routing and dispatch component including PSR-15 middleware, built on top of FastRoute.