CakephpSymfonyRouter is a plugin that extends how your default Router can be used. It enables three new features:

• Add named routes
• Manipulate the params from a matched route
• Matches a route only if it conforms to a given condition

• CakePHP 2.x (tested on 2.4 and 2.5 but should work on every 2.x release)
• PHP 5.3 or later (should work on 5.2 but it is not tested)
• composer

Using Composer

Add the plugin to your project's composer.json - something like this:

{
    "require": {
        "piotrpasich/cakephp-symfony-router": "dev-master"
    }
}

Then you need to install vendors:

cd app/Plugins/CakephpSymfonyRouter
composer install

Because this plugin has the type cakephp-plugin set in it's own composer.json, composer knows to install it inside your /Plugins directory, rather than in the usual vendors file. It is recommended that you add /Plugins/PowerRouter to your .gitignore file. Why? read this.

Manual

• Download this: http://github.com/piotrpasich/cakephp-symfony-router/zipball/master
• Unzip that download
• Copy the resulting folder to app/Plugins
• Rename the folder you just copied to CakephpSymfonyRouter

GIT Submodule

In your app directory type:

git submodule add git://github.com/piotrpasich/cakephp-symfony-router.git plugins/CakephpSymfonyRouter
git submodule init
git submodule update

GIT Clone

In your plugin directory type:

git clone git://github.com/piotrpasich/cakephp-symfony-router.git CakephpSymfonyRouter

CakephpSymfonyRouter is a custom route class that extends on the CakeRoute. This way you can use it to define your routes and take advantage of it's features. Using it will make you able to use routing in CakePHP much easier than it is now.

In order to use the features from CakephpSymfonyRouter, first you need to load the plugin adding the following line in your app/Config/bootstrap.php:

//app/Config/bootstrap.php
App::build(array('Plugin' => array(ROOT . '/Plugin/')));
CakePlugin::load('CakephpSymfonyRouter');

Later, import the library into your "app/Config/routes.php" file like this:

//app/Config/routes.php
App::uses('SymfonyRouter', 'CakephpSymfonyRouter.Lib');
App::uses('RouterYmlConfiguration', 'CakephpSymfonyRouter.Lib');

$routerYmlConfiguration = new RouterYmlConfiguration(APP . 'Config' . DS . 'router.yml');
$symfonyRouter = new SymfonyRouter($routerYmlConfiguration);

After that you can create own file in app/Config/router.yml like this:

home:
    path:      /
    defaults:  { controller: Home,  action: index }
blog:
    path:      /blog
    defaults:  { controller: Blog,  action: index }
blog_post:
    path:      /blog/{slug}
    defaults:  { controller: Blog,  action: post }

To use this Plugin in your Views files and generate Urls you need to add a Helper in your Controller like

//app/Controller/BlogController
class BlogController extends AppController
{

    public $helpers = array('CakephpSymfonyRouter.SymfonyRouter');

    /** ... **/
}

And then you can generate your url in View:

//app/View/Blog/index

<?php echo $this->SymfonyRouter->getPath('blog_post', array('slug' => $post->getSlug())); ?>
<a href="<?php echo $this->SymfonyRouter->getPath('blog_post', array('slug' => $post->getSlug())); ?>"><?php echo $post->getSlug() ?></a>

#More information

You can find more information about hwo the Symfony's routing is working on http://symfony.com/doc/current/book/routing.html .

This plugin is mostly a bridge between Symfony routing bundle and CakePHP framework.

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Copyright (c) 2014 Piotr Pasich

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