Convention over configuration Laravel route generator

A quick and easy way to auto generate routes, is to take advantage of the convention over configuration and PHP attributes.
This means that routes are automatically generated based on the directory structure of the controllers and the methods attributes.
In this way, you don't have to manually write the routes in the web.php or api.php file, but just follow some rules of file naming and organization.
Route groups are base on subdirectories of the controllers.

Let's see how to do it with a practical example.

Controller: App/Http/Controllers/SomeCategory/ProductsController.php

class ProductsController
{
    // index and __invoke defaults to GET
    public function index() {...}
    #[Get]
    public function show($id) {...}
    #[Post]
    public function store(Request $request) {...}
    #[Patch]
    public function update($id, Request $request) {...}
    #[Delete]
    public function destroy($id) {...}
}

To get routes simpli add the the following line to routes/web.php

    Route::maze(app_path('Http/Controllers'), 'App\\Http\\Controllers');

The generated routes are:

    Route::get('/some-category/products', 'SomeCategory\ProductsController@index')->name('some-category.products');
    Route::get('/some-category/products/show/{id}', 'SomeCategory\ProductsController@show')->name('some-category.products.show');
    Route::post('/some-category/products/store', 'SomeCategory\ProductsController@store')->name('some-category.products.store');
    Route::Patch('/some-category/products/update/{id}', 'SomeCategory\ProductsController@update')->name('some-category.products.update');
    Route::delete('/some-category/products/destroy/{id}', 'SomeCategory\ProductsController@destroy')->name('some-category.products.destroy');

Parameters in path

Parameters can be specified in the path naming the directory with _param-name_.

Http/Controllers/_param1_/ItemsController.php

class ItemsController
{
    #[Get]
    public function get($id) {...}
}

becomes

    Route::get('/{param1}/items/get/{id}', 'ItemsController@get')->name('items.get');

Middleware

You can specify middleware group by adding a file named middleware.php in the controller directory.

return [
    'auth',
];

Naming conventions

Uri and route name are composed of directories name, first part of the controller name (before Controller) and method name, all in kebab-case.

examples:

Controller name	Method name	Route name	Route path
SomeProductController	showItem($id)	some.product.show-item	/some-product/show-item/{id}
SomeProductController	storeItem	some.product.store-item	/some-product/store-item
SomeProductController	updateItem($id)	some.product.update-item	/some-product/update-item/{id}
SomeProductController	destroyItem($id)	some.product.destroy-item	/some-product/destroy-item/{id}

Disable discover for a Controller

To disable route discover for a specified crontroller, add static method mazeDisabled that returns true

In path configuration

If in the path is present a file named maze.php, it will be used to configure the route group.

return [
];

Key	Description	Default
ignore_path_name	Ignore path and name in route	false
disabled	Disable discovering of the entire path

## Installation

You can install the package via composer:

```bash
composer require ricventu/laravel-route-maze

Usage

    Route::maze(app_path('Http/Controllers'), 'App\\Http\\Controllers');

Testing

composer test

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information on what has changed recently.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Security Vulnerabilities

Please review our security policy on how to report security vulnerabilities.

Performance note

In production deployment, it's recommended to cache route discovering using Laravel route:cache built in command

Credits

• Riccardo Venturini
• All Contributors

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.