[RESOLVED] Node Style Routing in PHP

[dday9]

I wrote a web application using NodeJS and Postgres. When I purchased my hosting with Hostgator, I found out that they only offer PHP and MySQL under the plan I bought, so I'm in the process of rewriting it.

In my server.js file, I have this:

const express = require('express');
const footballRoutes = require('./football/controller');

const app = express();
const PORT = 3000;

// Use the imported routes for football and volleyball
app.use('/football', footballRoutes);

app.listen(PORT, () => {
  console.log(`Server is running on http://localhost:${PORT}`);
});

Then my football/controller.js, I have this:

const express = require('express');
const router = express.Router();
const footballService = require('./service');

router.get('/game/:id', async (req, res) => {
    const id = req.params.id;
    try {
        const game = await footballService.getGame(id);
        res.json(game);
    } catch (err) {
        res.status(500).send('Unable to get the football schedule.');
    }
});

router.get('/roster/seasons', async (req, res) => {
    const year = req.params.year;
    try {
        const roster = await footballService.getRosterSeasons(year);
        res.json(roster);
    } catch (err) {
        res.status(500).send('Unable to get the football roster.');
    }
});

router.get('/roster/:year', async (req, res) => {
    const year = req.params.year;
    try {
        const roster = await footballService.getRoster(year);
        res.json(roster);
    } catch (err) {
        res.status(500).send('Unable to get the football roster.');
    }
});

router.get('/schedule/seasons', async (req, res) => {
    try {
        const schedule = await footballService.getScheduleSeasons();
        res.json(schedule);
    } catch (err) {
        res.status(500).send('Unable to get the football schedule.');
    }
});

router.get('/schedule/:year', async (req, res) => {
    const year = req.params.year;
    try {
        const schedule = await footballService.getSchedule(year);
        res.json(schedule);
    } catch (err) {
        res.status(500).send('Unable to get the football schedule.');
    }
});

module.exports = router;

This allows me to make the following AJAX request (using Angular):

getFootballRosterBySeason(season: number): Observable<any[]> {
  return this.httpClient.get<any[]>(`${environment.apiUrl}/football/roster/${season}`);
}

Essentially what this does is call a GET request but the NodeJS server knows to use the football controller's /roster/seasons endpoint without me having to pass the year as a query string parameter.

Is there a way that I can do this in PHP? I'm sure I could modify the .htaccess file but that'd get messy quick.

[dday9]

In the end I ended up changing my file structure to match the traditional PHP routing:

/football
  /roster
    -get.php
    -seasons.php
  /schedule
    -game.php
    -get.php
    -seasons.php

Then changed my front-end code to match:

getFootballRosterSeasons(): Observable<number[]> {
  return this.httpClient.get<number[]>(`${environment.apiUrl}/football/roster/seasons`);
}
getFootballRosterBySeason(season: number): Observable<any[]> {
  const params = new HttpParams().set('season', season);
  return this.httpClient.get<any[]>(`${environment.apiUrl}/football/roster/get`, { params });
}
getFootballScheduleSeasons(): Observable<number[]> {
  return this.httpClient.get<number[]>(`${environment.apiUrl}/football/schedule/seasons`);
}
getFootballScheduleBySeason(season: number): Observable<any[]> {
  const params = new HttpParams().set('season', season);
  return this.httpClient.get<any[]>(`${environment.apiUrl}/football/schedule/get`, { params });
}
getFootballScheduleDetailById(id: number): Observable<any> {
  const params = new HttpParams().set('id', id);
  return this.httpClient.get<any>(`${environment.apiUrl}/football/schedule/game`, { params });
}