Symfony Routing Implementation in Custom CMS

• Followed the basic approach listed in this document.

• Also simultaneously went through the symfony-routing component documentation to understand the concepts being applied.

• Symfony Routing component docs - Symfony Routing.

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Adding routes in the CMS.

• In this custom-cms, routes can be added using a two-step procedure. Go to the routes/route.php file which contains all the defined routes.

1. Defining the routes.

   • First, you need to define the route and the controller-action associated with that route.
   • Example :- I want to add a route foo and this route should contain Home as the controller and the getData() as the action. So routing for this example will look something like this ->

$foo_route = new Route('/foo', ['controller' => "Home::getData"]);

• We store the defined route /foo in the $foo_route variable for step two of the routing process.
• This how we define new routes in the Custom-CMS.

2. Adding the defined route to the routes collection.

   • In the second step we will add the newly defined route /foo to routes collection.
   • The route collection stores all the defined and valid routes of the CMS.
   • To add the defined route to the routes-collection, follow this ->

$routes->add('foo_route', $foo_route);

• Here, we are adding the routes to the route collection and also giving it a name foo_route.
• Now the route /foo is completely added as one of the routes of the Custom-CMS.