Routing

Basics

All the routes for your application would live in the Routes folder. Mighty will scan through the entire Routes folder and pick up all .php files within in. Therefore, you are able to create as many separate files as you like to organize your routes.

For example:

- Routes
    - user.php
    - auth.php
    - admin.php
    - home.php

Where each of the files will correspond to its own routes. user.php may contain routes to all user related endpoints, while admin.php will contain all that is admin related.

Scope First

Mighty's router work in scopes. A scope is a group of routes, with or without a prefix. To declare a scope, simply create a new Router() object.

<?php
use MightyCore\Routing\Router;
​
// Notice that '/' means root path
$router = new Router('/');

Now you have created a new scope which has no prefix. You can then add your routes as such:

<?php
use MightyCore\Routing\Router;
​
$router = new Router('/');
​
// URL is example.com
$router->get('/', '[email protected]');
​
// URL is example.com/login
$router->get('/login', '[email protected]');
​
// URL is example.com/user/add
$router->get('/user/add', '[email protected]');

Let's make things nicer. Although the routing above will work, but as your application increases in size, more and more routes will come in, and each may want to implement its own middlewares or naming. It will pretty soon grow out of hand.

Let's try to refactor the /user paths into a new scope:

<?php
use MightyCore\Routing\Router;
​
$router = new Router('/');
// URL is example.com
$router->get('/', '[email protected]');
// URL is example.com/login
$router->get('/login', '[email protected]');
​
​
// Create a new scope
$userRouter = new Router('/user');
// URL is example.com/user/add
$userRouter->get('/add', '[email protected]');

This way, we can better organize our routes as they are self contained within their scopes and prefixes.

To organize further, we can refactor the codes into separate route files:

Routes/home.php
<?php
use MightyCore\Routing\Router;
​
$router = new Router('/');
// URL is example.com
$router->get('/', '[email protected]');
// URL is example.com/login
$router->get('/login', '[email protected]');

Routes/user.php
<?php
use MightyCore\Routing\Router;
​
// Create a new scope
$userRouter = new Router('/user');
// URL is example.com/user/add
$userRouter->get('/add', '[email protected]');