# Redirecting (short form)
**URL:** https://discourse.slimframework.com/t/redirecting-short-form/3985
**Category:** Questions
**Created:** [March 31, 2020, 10:16am UTC](https://discourse.slimframework.com/t/redirecting-short-form/3985 "2020-03-31T10:16:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@fabswt](https://discourse.slimframework.com/u/fabswt)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2020, 10:16am UTC](https://discourse.slimframework.com/t/redirecting-short-form/3985/1 "2020-03-31T10:16:00Z")
Redirecting changed a lot over versions.
**In Slim v2:**
```
$app->redirect($app->urlFor('foo'));
```
**In Slim v3:**
```
$url = $this->router->pathFor('foo');
return $response->withStatus(302)->withHeader('Location', $url);
```
**In Slim v4:**
Set up the router once with
```
$app->addRoutingMiddleware();
```
Then:
```
$routeParser = \Slim\Routing\RouteContext::fromRequest($request)->getRouteParser();
$url = $routeParser->urlFor('foo');
return $response->withStatus(302)->withHeader('Location', $url);
```
**Is there anything shorter for v4 that I’d have missed?**
If, to make things shorter and easier to read, I make **a helper class to shorten the syntax, what is the recommended way to access the router** then? e.g. make `$app` a global available to my Helper class? Pass `$request` to the Helper class?
Any tip on the topic is welcome.
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@odan](https://discourse.slimframework.com/u/odan)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2020, 5:43pm UTC](https://discourse.slimframework.com/t/redirecting-short-form/3985/2 "2020-03-31T17:43:50Z")
Hi @fabswt Good question.
There is a set of [PSR-7 object decorators](https://github.com/slimphp/Slim-Http) providing useful convenience methods, such as `Response::withRedirect($url, $status)`. But you still need the `RouteParser` to create a URL by a route name. So there is no real “shortcut” at all.
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### Author:  [@fabswt](https://discourse.slimframework.com/u/fabswt)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2020, 10:24am UTC](https://discourse.slimframework.com/t/redirecting-short-form/3985/3 "2020-04-01T10:24:02Z")
Hey Odan,
Thanks. I ended up doing it like this:
```php
/**
* Redirect.
*
* Inspired by Slim's RouteParserInterface.
*
* @param string $destination URL or Route name
* @param array $data Named argument replacement data
* @param array $queryParams Optional query string parameters
*
* @return string
*
* @throws RuntimeException If named route does not exist
* @throws InvalidArgumentException If required data not provided
*/
public static function redirect($request, $response, string $destination, array $data = [], array $queryParams = []) {
if (filter_var($destination, FILTER_VALIDATE_URL)) {
$url = $destination;
// WOULDDO(): add support for query parameters, if I need it.
} else {
$routeParser = \Slim\Routing\RouteContext::fromRequest($request)->getRouteParser();
$url = $routeParser->urlFor($destination, $data, $queryParams);
}
return $response->withStatus(302)->withHeader('Location', $url);
}
```
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### Author:  [@odan](https://discourse.slimframework.com/u/odan)
#### Post date: [November 6, 2023, 8:06pm UTC](https://discourse.slimframework.com/t/redirecting-short-form/3985/4 "2023-11-06T20:06:40Z")
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