Is there an standalone PHP routing library? [closed]

Question

I'm looking to add some dynamic, REST-esque routing to a PHP application. I'd love to use an existing routing library so I don't have to reinvent the wheel.

However, when I look at things like Slim and F3, they all come with things I don't want--like templating and MVC--included. Since I just want routing, I'd end up with a lot of framework code in my application that I don't need.

Is there a good library out there that only does routing? Or am I stuck with importing a full framework or reinventing the wheel?

Answer 1

Try Klein:

Single file, standalone and robust:

"klein.php is a lightning fast router for PHP 5.3+"

• Flexible regular expression routing (inspired by Sinatra)
• A set of boilerplate methods for rapidly building web apps
• Almost no overhead => 2500+ requests/second

https://github.com/chriso/klein.php

Answer 2

Due to the oldish answers on this question I think it would be a pretty good idea to mention some more up-to-date solutions to the case in the OP.

The 2 solutions which came to my mind as soon as I saw your question ware:

• FastRoute https://github.com/nikic/FastRoute - Written by Nikita Popov
• Phroute https://github.com/mrjgreen/phroute - Written by Joe Green

Phroute is built on top of FastRoute, hence they both require PHP 5.4.

If you need a PHP 5.3+ solution, I would definitely recommend Slim Framework's routing. If you don't want any of the other functionality which come with the framework, you might extract the Routing parts and use only them (SLIM is MIT licensed, so you are allowed to do whatever)

Ive used the slim routing standalone, in a project of mine - DaGhostman\CodeWave @ github, see tags <=2.4, the relative parts are in Application\Core & Application\Controller.