LoconoxEntityRoutingBundle

Topos

Problem

Lets say that you want these routes in your application:

product-page:
    path: /{category}/{product}

user-page:
    path: /{group}/{user}

The Symfony router will build regex based on your route and try to match incoming request with these regex.

But regex for two different pages maybe the same, /car/tesla will match product-page route but /scientist/tesla will also match product-page route.

Solution

This bundle allow you to map route parameters to entity slug. For instance, the router will request your database and will not found any Category with scientist as slug. So it will go to the user-page route and check if any Group with scientist as slug exists.

Installation

Step 1: Download the Bundle

Open a command console, enter your project directory and execute the following command to download the latest stable version of this bundle:

$ composer require loconox/entity-routing-bundle

This command requires you to have Composer installed globally, as explained in the installation chapter of the Composer documentation.

Step 2: Enable the Bundle

Then, enable the bundle by adding it to the list of registered bundles in the config/bundles.php file of your project:

<?php
// config/bundles.php

return [
    // ...
    \Loconox\EntityRoutingBundle\LoconoxEntityRoutingBundle::class => ['all' => true]
];

Requirements

PCRE

$ ./configure --enable-utf --enable-pcre16 --enable-pcre32 --prefix=/opt/local --enable-unicode-properties

PCRE have to be compatible with UTF-8 encoding. The command above should print at least "UTF-8 support" and "Unicode properties support".

$ pcretest -C

Configuration

Cmf Routing

Configure the chain routing:

# config/packages/cmf_routing.yaml
cmf_routing:
  chain:
    routers_by_id:
      loconox_entity_routing.router: 100
      router.default: 75

Routing bundle

Optionally, you can specify a different entity manager for your slug to be store and a specific class.

# config/packages/loconox_entity_routing.yaml
loconox_entity_routing:
  entity_manager: default
  class:
    slug: 'Loconox\EntityRoutingBundle\Entity\Slug'
  router:
    resource: 'kernel::loadRoutes'
    type: 'service'

Usage

See usage guide.