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Base class for ATK14 routers generating nice looking URLs with slugs

It can handle "detail" URLs for models that have method getSlug($lang) and static method GetInstanceBySlug($slug,&$lang). You can find both in the Atk14Catalog.

Basic usage

Router class:

<?php
// file: config/routers/articles_router.php
class ArticlesRouter extends SluggishRouter {

  var $patterns = [
    "en" => ["index" => "/articles/", "detail" => "/articles/<slug>/"],
    "cs" => ["index" => "/clanky/", "detail" => "/clanky/<slug>/"],
    "sk" => ["index" => "/sk/clanky/", "detail" => "/sk/clanky/<slug>/"],
  ];
  
  // var $model_class_name = "Article"; // by default determined automatically according to the router's class name
  // var $target_controller_name = "articles"; // by default determined automatically according to the router's class name
}

Loading router:

<?php
// file: config/routers/load.php
Atk14Url::AddRouter("ArticlesRouter"); // the default namespace ("")
Atk14Url::AddRouter("blog","ArticlesRouter"); // loading ArticlesRouter also into namespace blog

In a template:

{a controller="articles" action="detail" id=123}Here is the article{/a}<br>
{a controller="articles" action="index"}Show all articles{/a}

Rendered HTML:

<a href="/articles/why-is-the-atk14-so-cool/">Here is the article</a><br>
<a href="/articles/">Show all articles</a>

An easier way to set the routes:

<?php
// file: config/routers/articles_router.php
class ArticlesRouter extends SluggishRouter {

  var $patterns = [
    "en" => "articles", // same as ["index" => "/articles/", "detail" => "/articles/<slug>/"]
    "cs" => "clanky", //  same as ["index" => "/clanky/", "detail" => "/clanky/<slug>/"]
    "sk" => "sk/clanky", // same as ["index" => "/sk/clanky/", "detail" => "/sk/clanky/<slug>/"]
  ];
}

Setting only detail routes:

<?php
// file: config/routers/articles_router.php
class ArticlesRouter extends SluggishRouter {

  var $patterns = [
    "en" => "/articles/<slug>/", // same as ["detail" => "/articles/<slug>/"]
    "cs" => "/clanky/<slug>/", //  same as ["detail" => "/clanky/<slug>/"]
    "sk" => "/sk/clanky/<slug>/", // same as ["detail" => "/sk/clanky/<slug>/"]
  ];
}

Fallback route

A fallback route for all the unlisted languages can be specified using the asterisk symbol.

<?php
// file: config/routers/articles_router.php
class ArticlesRouter extends SluggishRouter {
  var $patterns = [
    "*" => ["index" => "/<lang>/articles/", "detail" => "/<lang>/articles/<slug>/"],
  ];
}

Installation

Use the Composer to install SluggishRouter.

cd path/to/your/project/
composer require atk14/sluggish-router

Testing

composer update --dev
cd test
../vendor/bin/run_unit_tests

Licence

SluggishRouter is free software distributed under the terms of the MIT license