on 08 January 2014 by in
Continuing our string of library package releases, today we have the 2.0.0-beta1 release of Aura.Router. Given a URL path and a copy of $_SERVER, it will extract path-info and $_SERVER values for a specific route. You can download it directly or install via Composer and Packagist.
The Aura.Router package does not provide a dispatching mechanism. Your application is expected to take the information provided by the matching route and dispatch to a controller on its own. You might do this with Aura.Dispatcher or with some other system of your own devising.
In addition to all the standard stuff like adding routes and generating links, Aura.Router has some added conveniences:
Nice-looking “optional” params. To specify optional params, use a notation like {/year,month,day} in the path. Optional params are sequentially optional. This means that, in the example, you cannot have a “day” without a “month”, and you cannot have a “month” without a “year”. If you generate a link with optional params, the params will be filled in if they are present in the data for the link.
Attaching route groups. You can add a series of routes all at once under a single “mount point” in your application via a closure.
Attaching REST resource routes. The router can attach a series of REST resource routes for you with the attachResource() method. One call to that method with a resource name and base path will add named browse, read, edit, add, delete, create, update, and replace routes for you under that base path. Don’t like the defaults on those? Set your own resource attachment callback with setResourceCallback().
If you like clean code, fully decoupled libraries, and truly independent packages, then the Aura project is for you. You can download a single package and start using it in your project today, with no added dependencies.
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