PHP Prime : Doc : Setup : Routes

Routes

Unlike other frameworks, the routes are rarely used, as controllers are loaded automatically.

Routes allow you to make generic changes to URLs for your website, for example you may prefix every URL with the ISO language code:

https://www.example.com/en/about/
https://www.example.com/fr/about/
https://www.example.com/de/about/

Where the /about/ page is handled with exactly the same code, and has access to the language code in a variable.

The configuration for this is stored in:

/app/library/setup/routes.php

And contains something like:

$routes[] = array(
        'path' => '^/(en|fr|de)/',
        'replace' => '/',
        'method' => 'regexp',
        'variables' => array(
                'language',
            ),
    );

$routes[] = array(
        'path' => '/blog/',
        'replace' => '/news/',
    );

$routes[] = array(
        'path' => '^/(desert|sea)/',
        'replace' => '/location-\1/',
        'method' => 'regexp',
        'variables' => array(
                'location',
            ),
    );

$routes[] = array( // This example is better handled with a controller.
        'path' => '/news/*/',
        'replace' => '/news/item/',
        'method' => 'wildcard',
        'variables' => array(
                'ref',
                'error',
            ),
    );

The available methods include:

• wildcard
• prefix
• suffix
• exact
• regexp
• preg

You might want to try using the 'url.prefix' config variable for the url helper.