Routing Adapters

Using the Laminas Router

laminas-mvc provides a router implementation; for HTTP applications, the default used in Laminas applications is Laminas\Mvc\Router\Http\TreeRouteStack, which can compose a number of different routes of differing types in order to perform routing.

The Laminas bridge we provide, Mezzio\Router\LaminasRouter, uses the TreeRouteStack, and injects Segment routes to it; these are in turn injected with Method routes, and a special "method not allowed" route at negative priority to enable us to distinguish between failure to match the path and failure to match the HTTP method.

If you instantiate it with no arguments, it will create an empty TreeRouteStack. Thus, the simplest way to start with this router is:

use Mezzio\AppFactory;
use Mezzio\Router\LaminasRouter;

$app = AppFactory::create(null, new LaminasRouter());

The TreeRouteStack offers some unique features:

• Route "prototypes". These are essentially like child routes that must also match in order for a given route to match. These are useful for implementing functionality such as ensuring the request comes in over HTTPS, or over a specific subdomain.
• Base URL functionality. If a base URL is injected, comparisons will be relative to that URL. This is mostly unnecessary with Stratigility-based middleware, but could solve some edge cases.

To specify these, you need access to the underlying TreeRouteStack instance, however, and the RouterInterface does not provide an accessor!

The answer, then, is to use dependency injection. This can be done in two ways: programmatically, or via a factory to use in conjunction with your container instance.

Installing the Laminas Router

To use the Laminas router, you will need to install the laminas-mvc router integration:

$ composer require mezzio/mezzio-laminasrouter

Quick Start

At its simplest, you can instantiate a Mezzio\Router\LaminasRouter instance with no arguments; it will create the underlying laminas-mvc routing objects required and compose them for you:

use Mezzio\Router\LaminasRouter;

$router = new LaminasRouter();

Programmatic Creation

If you need greater control over the laminas-mvc router setup and configuration, you can create the instances necessary and inject them into Mezzio\Router\LaminasRouter during instantiation.

use Laminas\Mvc\Router\Http\TreeRouteStack;
use Mezzio\AppFactory;
use Mezzio\Router\LaminasRouter;

$laminasRouter = new TreeRouteStack();
$laminasRouter->addPrototypes(/* ... */);
$laminasRouter->setBaseUrl(/* ... */);

$router = new LaminasRouter($laminasRouter);

// First argument is the container to use, if not using the default;
// second is the router.
$app = AppFactory::create(null, $router);

Piping the route middleware

As a reminder, you will need to ensure that middleware is piped in the order in which it needs to be executed; please see the section on "Controlling middleware execution order" in the piping documentation. This is particularly salient when defining routes before injecting the router in the application instance!

Factory-Driven Creation

We recommend using an Inversion of Control container for your applications; as such, in this section we will demonstrate two strategies for creating your laminas-mvc router implementation.

Basic Router

If you don't need to provide any setup or configuration, you can simply instantiate and return an instance of Mezzio\Router\LaminasRouter for the service name Mezzio\Router\RouterInterface.

A factory would look like this:

// in src/Application/Container/RouterFactory.php
namespace Application\Container;

use Interop\Container\ContainerInterface;
use Mezzio\Router\LaminasRouter;

class RouterFactory
{
    /**
     * @param ContainerInterface $container
     * @return LaminasRouter
     */
    public function __invoke(ContainerInterface $container)
    {
        return new LaminasRouter();
    }
}

You would register this with laminas-servicemanager using:

$container->setFactory(
    'Mezzio\Router\RouterInterface',
    'Application\Container\RouterFactory'
);

And in Pimple:

$pimple['Mezzio\Router\RouterInterface'] = new Application\Container\RouterFactory();

For laminas-servicemanager, you can omit the factory entirely, and register the class as an invokable:

$container->setInvokableClass(
    'Mezzio\Router\RouterInterface',
    'Mezzio\Router\LaminasRouter'
);

Advanced Configuration

If you want to provide custom setup or configuration, you can do so. In this example, we will be defining two factories:

• A factory to register as and generate an Laminas\Mvc\Router\Http\TreeRouteStack instance.
• A factory registered as Mezzio\Router\RouterInterface, which creates and returns a Mezzio\Router\LaminasRouter instance composing the Laminas\Mvc\Router\Http\TreeRouteStack instance.

Sound difficult? It's not; we've essentially done it above already!

// in src/Application/Container/TreeRouteStackFactory.php:
namespace Application\Container;

use Interop\Container\ContainerInterface;
use Laminas\Http\Mvc\Router\TreeRouteStack;

class TreeRouteStackFactory
{
    /**
     * @param ContainerInterface $container
     * @return TreeRouteStack
     */
    public function __invoke(ContainerInterface $container)
    {
        $router = new TreeRouteStack();
        $router->addPrototypes(/* ... */);
        $router->setBaseUrl(/* ... */);

        return $router;
    }
}

// in src/Application/Container/RouterFactory.php
namespace Application\Container;

use Interop\Container\ContainerInterface;
use Mezzio\Router\LaminasRouter;

class RouterFactory
{
    /**
     * @param ContainerInterface $container
     * @return LaminasRouter
     */
    public function __invoke(ContainerInterface $container)
    {
        return new LaminasRouter($container->get('Laminas\Mvc\Router\Http\TreeRouteStack'));
    }
}

From here, you will need to register your factories with your IoC container.

If you are using laminas-servicemanager, this will look like:

// Programmatically:
use Laminas\ServiceManager\ServiceManager;

$container = new ServiceManager();
$container->addFactory(
    'Laminas\Mvc\Router\Http\TreeRouteStack',
    'Application\Container\TreeRouteStackFactory'
);
$container->addFactory(
    'Mezzio\Router\RouterInterface',
    'Application\Container\RouterFactory'
);

// Alternately, via configuration:
return [
    'factories' => [
        'Laminas\Mvc\Router\Http\TreeRouteStack' => 'Application\Container\TreeRouteStackFactory',
        'Mezzio\Router\RouterInterface' => 'Application\Container\RouterFactory',
    ],
];

For Pimple, configuration looks like:

use Application\Container\TreeRouteStackFactory;
use Application\Container\LaminasRouterFactory;
use Interop\Container\Pimple\PimpleInterop;

$container = new PimpleInterop();
$container['Laminas\Mvc\Router\Http\TreeRouteStackFactory'] = new TreeRouteStackFactory();
$container['Mezzio\Router\RouterInterface'] = new RouterFactory();