Introduction
Inspired from Laravel's router, let's build our very own custom PHP router for managing our endpoints well for our next PHP project.
Setting up
Let's make a new directory for our demo project & create couple of files we're going to be using i.e. index.php & router.php.
Basic flow would be like, in our index.php, we'll setup our routes and endpoints & simply passing the data in the callbacks.
In our router.php, paste the following code.
<?php
/**
* Holds the registered routes
*
* @var array $routes
*/
$routes = [];
/**
* Register a new route
*
* @param $action string
* @param \Closure $callback Called when current URL matches provided action
*/
function route($action, Closure $callback)
{
global $routes;
$action = trim($action, '/');
$routes[$action] = $callback;
}
/**
* Dispatch the router
*
* @param $action string
*/
function dispatch($action)
{
global $routes;
$action = trim($action, '/');
$callback = $routes[$action];
echo call_user_func($callback);
}As you can see, there are two main functions here, one is route(), which accepts an action & a callback. This route() method will determine the action will return the provided callback. The other function is dispatch() and it will only accept an action.
Now inside of our index.php, we can simply call like.
<?php
require_once "router.php";
route('/', function () {
return "Hello World";
});
route('/about', function () {
return "Hello form the about route";
});
$action = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
dispatch($action);Read Also, Create a PHP router using Named URL Segments
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