Routing - ace411/Bingo-Framework GitHub Wiki

#Routes

Routing makes accessing Controllers possible; URL path fragments are mapped to the appropriate Controller methods to achieve application functionality. The base Router class in the MVC application is at the heart of all URL-related operations and is, effectively, a conduit.

##Creating Routes

Creating routes can be done in the index.php file in the public directory. Pattern matching techniques are used to match the URL information entered by a user to the "routing table" contents. A simple route can be defined like this:

$router = new Core\Router;
$router->addRoute("sample", ["controller" => "Bingo", "action" => "sample"]);

The keys of the associative array are self-explanatory and further explain the MVC structure. Though it is possible to repeat the addRoute() declaration as many times as you need to, it is a lot better to define a routing scheme that can be implemented by the core Router class. Something like the snippet shown below should suffice.

$router->addRoute("{controller}/{action}");

To create routes with regular expression constraints, you can specify the expressions to use in your route. Consider the code shown below:

$router->addRoute("{controller}/{action}/{id:\d+}");

The result is the addition of a route with an additional id parameter similar to something like this: <scheme>/<host>/<controller>/<action>/<integer> or http://localhost:8080/home/index/12