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title: AltoRouter - PHP Router that supports REST, dynamic and reversed routing
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<h1>AltoRouter</h1>
<p class="intro">AltoRouter is a small but powerful routing class for PHP 5.3+, heavily inspired by <a href="https://github.com/chriso/klein.php/">klein.php</a>.</p>

{% highlight php startinline %}
$router = new AltoRouter();

// map homepage
$router->map( 'GET', '/', function() {
    require __DIR__ . '/views/home.php';
});

// map users details page
$router->map( 'GET|POST', '/users/[i:id]/', function( $id ) {
  $user = .....
  require __DIR__ . '/views/user/details.php';
});
{% endhighlight %}

<h2>Router Features</h2>
<ul>
    <li>HTTP methods</li>
    <li>Dynamic routing with (named) route parameters</li>
    <li>Flexible regular expression routing, inspired by <a href="http://www.sinatrarb.com/">Sinatra</a></li>
    <li>Reversed routing</li>
    <li>Custom regexes</li>
</ul>

<h2 id="using-altorouter">Using AltoRouter</h2>
<p>To use AltoRouter in your project you need a web server running PHP 5.3 or newer.</p>

<ul>
    <li><a href="{{ '/usage/install.html' | relative_url }}">Install AltoRouter</a></li>
    <li><a href="{{ '/usage/rewrite-requests.html' | relative_url }}">Rewrite all requests to AltoRouter</a></li>
    <li><a href="{{ '/usage/mapping-routes.html' | relative_url }}">Map your routes</a></li>
    <li><a href="{{ '/usage/matching-requests.html' | relative_url }}">Match requests</a></li>
    <li><a href="{{ '/usage/processing-requests.html' | relative_url }}">Process the request your preferred way</a></li>
</ul>

<h2>
<a name="contributors" class="anchor" href="#contributors"><span class="octicon octicon-link"></span></a>Contributors</h2>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/dannyvankooten">Danny van Kooten</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/koenpunt">Koen Punt</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/adduc">John Long</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/niahoo">Niahoo Osef</a></li>
</ul>


<p>Released under the <a href="{{ '/license.html' | relative_url }}">MIT Public License</a>.</p>
<p>&copy; 2012-2023 <a href="https://dannyvankooten.com/">Danny van Kooten</a></p>