5. Routing

When a site user enters a URL in a web browser, the HTTP request is finally dispatched to controller's action in your ZF3-based website. In this chapter, we will learn about how ZF3-based application maps page URLs to controllers and their actions. This mapping is accomplished with the help of routing. Routing is implemented as a part of Zend\Router component.

ZF3 components covered in this chapter:

• 5.1. URL Structure
• 5.2. Route Types
• 5.3. Combining Route Types
  • 5.3.1. Simple Route Stack
  • 5.3.2. Tree Route Stack
• 5.4. Routing Configuration
  • 5.4.1. Configuration for Simple Routes
  • 5.4.2. Configuration for Nested Routes
  • 5.4.3. Default Routing Configuration in Zend Skeleton Application
• 5.5. Literal Route Type
• 5.6. Segment Route Type
• 5.7. Regex Route Type
• 5.8. Other Route Types
  • 5.8.1. Hostname
  • 5.8.2. Scheme
  • 5.8.3. Method
• 5.9. Extracting Parameters from Route
  • 5.9.1. Retrieving the RouteMatch and the Router Object
• 5.10. Generating URLs from Route
  • 5.10.1. Generating URLs in View Templates
    • 5.10.1.1. Passing Parameters
    • 5.10.1.2. Generating Absolute URLs
    • 5.10.1.3. Specifying Query Part
  • 5.10.2. Generating URLs in Controllers
  • 5.10.3. URL Encoding
• 5.11. Writing Own Route Type
  • 5.11.1. RouteInterface
  • 5.11.2. Custom Route Class
• 5.12. Summary