borschphp/router

A FastRoute router implementation.

3.1.0 2025-07-25 20:47 UTC

Requires

• php: ^8.2
• nikic/fast-route: ^v1.3
• psr/http-message: ^1||^2
• psr/http-server-handler: ^1.0
• psr/http-server-middleware: ^1
• symfony/finder: ^7.3

Requires (Dev)

• borschphp/container: ^1.1
• laminas/laminas-diactoros: ^3
• pestphp/pest: ^3.0
• phpstan/phpstan: ^2.1

MIT

• Alexandre DEBUSSCHÈRE

README

Borsch Router

An awesome router implementation with support for multiple routing engines, including `nikic/fast-route`.

Table of Contents

1. About The Project
2. Getting Started
   • Prerequisites
   • Installation
3. Usage
4. Testing
5. Contributing
6. License
7. Acknowledgments

About The Project

A collection of router implementations, inspired by the one you can find in the excellent Mezzio Routing Interfaces. Among them :

• a router is based on nikic/fast-route
• a router is based on a tree structure
• a router is based on a simple comparator

You need to provide a PSR-7 ServerRequestInterface in order to match the routes.
A PSR-7 ResponseInterface must be returned by the route handler.

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Getting Started

Prerequisites

You need PHP >= 8.2 to use Borsch\Router but the latest stable version of PHP is always recommended.

It also requires an implementation of PSR-7 HTTP Message.
The Laminas Diactoros Project is used for testing, and in the examples below.

Installation

Via composer :

composer require borschphp/router

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Usage

require_once __DIR__.'/vendor/autoload.php';

$router = new \Borsch\Router\FastRouteRouter();

$router->addRoute(new \Borsch\Router\Route(
    ['GET'],
    '/articles/{id:\d+}[/{slug}]',
    new ArticleHandler(), // Instance of RequestHandlerInterface
    'articles.id.title'
));

$server_request = \Laminas\Diactoros\ServerRequestFactory::fromGlobals();

// $route_result is an instance of RouteResultInterface
$route_result = $router->match($server_request);

// $route is an instance of RouteInterface (or false if no match)
$route = $route_result->getMatchedRoute();
if (!$route) {
    return new \Laminas\Diactoros\Response('Not Found', 404);
}

// $response is an instance of ResponseInterface
$response = $route->getHandler()->handle($server_request);

// Send the response back to the client or other...

Available routers

Router Name	Description	Cache	Speed	Speed with cache	Variables	Optional Parts
FastRouteRouter	A nikic/fast-route based router	✅	Medium	Fast	✅	✅
TreeRouter	A tree based router	✅	Fast	Very fast	✅	❌
SimpleConditionalRouter	A very simple comparator based router	❌	Very fast	❌	❌	❌

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Testing

This package uses Pest as test framework.
To run tests :

./vendor/bin/pest tests

Mutation testing has also been added to this package:

XDEBUG_MODE=coverage ./vendor/bin/pest --mutate --parallel

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Contributing

Contributions are what make the open source community such an amazing place to learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated.

If you have a suggestion that would make this better, please fork the repo and create a pull request. You can also simply open an issue with the tag "enhancement". Don't forget to give the project a star! Thanks again!

1. Fork the Project
2. Create your Feature Branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature)
3. Commit your Changes (git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature')
4. Push to the Branch (git push origin feature/AmazingFeature)
5. Open a Pull Request

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License

Distributed under the MIT License. See License File for more information.

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Acknowledgments

A big thanks to these projects for inspiration or because they're used in this one:

• nikic/fast-route
• Mezzio Routing Interface
• PHP Standards Recommendations

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