nikic/FastRoute
FastRoute
FastRoute is a PHP request router that maps incoming HTTP request URIs to specific handlers. It functions as a regular expression router, matching dynamic request paths against patterns to extract variables and route traffic.
The project operates as a cached route dispatcher, storing pre-computed routing tables to eliminate the overhead of parsing definitions on every request. It utilizes regular expression grouping to combine multiple route patterns into a single operation, reducing the total number of matching steps required for resolution.
The library covers dynamic API endpoint management through the use of placeholder patterns and optional segments. It provides capabilities for group-based prefixing to organize endpoints and allows for custom routing logic by replacing the parser, data generator, or dispatcher.
Features
- PHP Routing Libraries - Provides a high-performance routing library for the PHP runtime using optimized matching algorithms.
- HTTP Request Routers - Provides a fast routing library that maps HTTP request URIs to specific handlers.
- URI-to-Controller Mappings - Maps incoming HTTP request URIs to specific handlers using flexible patterns and optional segments.
- Custom Web Route Dispatching - Implementing specialized URI parsing and dispatching strategies to control how web requests are handled.
- Dynamic API Routing - Handles flexible URL patterns and optional segments to route API requests to the correct business logic.
- Regular Expression Routers - Matches dynamic request paths against regular expression patterns to extract variables and route traffic.
- Handler Dispatchers - Decouples URI matching from execution via a dedicated dispatching layer that maps patterns to handler functions.
- Dynamic Segment Extraction - Uses placeholder patterns within URIs to capture dynamic path segments and pass them as arguments to handlers.
- Cached Dispatchers - Uses a cached routing mechanism to eliminate the overhead of parsing route definitions on every request.
- Regular Expression Grouping - Combines multiple route patterns into a single large regular expression to minimize the number of matching operations.
- Prefix Groupings - Supports nesting route definitions under shared path prefixes to organize endpoints and reduce repetition.
- Server-Side Route Caching - Stores pre-computed routing tables to bypass the definition process and speed up request dispatching.
- Route Table Caching - Implements a cached route dispatcher that stores pre-computed routing tables in static files to eliminate parsing overhead.
- Routing and Templating - High-performance routing library.
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