ToroPHP

Toro

Toro is a PHP router for developing RESTful web applications and APIs. It is designed for minimalists who want to get work done.

Quick Links

• Official Website
• Changelog
• Design Goals

Features

• RESTful routing using strings, regular expressions, and defined types (number, string, alpha)
• Flexible error handling and callbacks via ToroHook
• Intuitive and self-documented core (Toro.php)
• Tested with PHP 5.3 and above

"Hello, world"

The canonical "Hello, world" example:

 "HelloHandler",
));

Routing Basics

Routing with Toro is simple:

 "SplashHandler",
    "/catalog/page/:number" => "CatalogHandler",
    "/product/:alpha" => "ProductHandler",
    "/manufacturer/:string" => "ManufacturerHandler"
));

An application's route table is expressed as an associative array (route_pattern => handler). This is closely modeled after Tornado (Python). Routes are not expressed as anonymous functions to prevent unnecessary code duplication for RESTful dispatching.

From the above example, route stubs, such as :number, :string, and :alpha can be conveniently used instead of common regular expressions. Of course, regular expressions are still welcome. The previous example could also be expressed as:

 "SplashHandler",
    "/catalog/page/([0-9]+)" => "CatalogHandler",
    "/product/([a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)" => "ProductHandler",
    "/manufacturer/([a-zA-Z]+)" => "ManufacturerHandler"
));

Pattern matches are passed in order as arguments to the handler's request method. In the case of ProductHandler above:

 installer.php
$ less installer.php
$ # When you're certain it's safe...
$ php installer.php

Create a composer.json file in your project root:

{
    "require": {
        "torophp/torophp": "dev-master"
    }
}

Install via composer:

$ php composer.phar install

Server Configuration

Apache

You may need to add the following snippet in your Apache HTTP server virtual host configuration or .htaccess file.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

Alternatively, if you’re lucky enough to be using a version of Apache greater than 2.2.15, then you can instead just use this one, single line:

FallbackResource /index.php

IIS

For IIS you will need to install URL Rewrite for IIS and then add the following rule to your web.config:

Nginx

Under the server block of your virtual host configuration, you only need to add three lines.

location / {
  try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
}

Contributions

• Toro was inspired by the Tornado Web Server (FriendFeed/Facebook)
• Berker Peksag, Martin Bean, Robbie Coleman, and John Kurkowski for bug fixes and patches
• Danillo César de O. Melo for ToroHook
• Jason Mooberry for code optimizations and feedback

Contributions to Toro are welcome via pull requests.

License

ToroPHP was created by Kunal Anand and released under the MIT License.