PHP Regex Routing Function match URLS

Question

I would like to write a router that is parsing an URL such as I am giving it the rules and after that I would like to have an array that is name based.

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So I did rewrite the code a little bit the new code can be found here: http://pastebin.com/Ver601FF

The outcome can be seen here: http://img824.imageshack.us/i/phpprob.png/

What I now dont get is the way I could match the url values according to the regex within an array that has the indexes as the second route param has.

========================EDIT STOP================== At the end I would like to have an array:

$request['controller']
$request['action']

as the basic $request params, as I need them all the time- therefore this has to be my standard / default route.

So lets say the $pattern[2] is happening, when I finish with this horrible regex I would like to have this:

$request['controller']
$request['action'] = show
$request['id']
$request['name']

obviously everything has to be filled accordingly depending on the requested url...

It dont know if it is because of its late or not, but I cant figure out, how I have to match those things.

Do I need to split the url and after I was checking if it matches a route? and then work with the values that they go to each others.

Another problem where I dont know a solution to is the fact, that an url such as

"/information/show/some/other/stuff"

has to give me back something like

$request['controller']  = information
$request['action'] = show
$request['params'] = array(some, other, stuff)

I appreciate anykind of help and hope that somebody can help me out of this trouble :(

Thank you very much in advance.

ikegami ikegami · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-21T02:27:52

$regex  .= "[a-zA-Z]\/";

should be

$regex  .= "[a-zA-Z]+\/";

The first matches one letter. The second matches one or more.

Furthermore, your slashes are at the wrong spot ([]/[]/ vs /[]/[]) and your match is not anchored.

...
$regex .= "\/[a-zA-Z]+";
...
$regex .= "\/" . $route;
...
print_r(preg_grep("/^" . $patt . "\z/i", $url));
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PHP Regex Routing Function match URLS

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