Type hint on Route placeholders!

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Is there any way of using Type-Hint while defining routes?

So far I’ve found regex which is enough but having something like registering type-hint and using it multiple times would be cleaner.

Looking for something like this:

$app->get('/article/{slug:[A-Za-z]+}', []);

// expectation
$app->get('/article/{slug:slug}', []);

I saw that league/route have this feature which is also built on top of FastRoute.

2

I’m not sure what you mean by “type hints” in this context.
Do you eventually mean the pattern matcher for regular expression aliases?

$router->addPatternMatcher('wordStartsWithM', '(m|M)[a-zA-Z]+');

$router->map('GET', 'users/teams/{name:wordStartsWithM}', function ());
3

Yeah.
I was asking for this.

How to achieve this in slim?

4

As far as I know this is not supported directly. But since Slim 4 it’s possible to replace the default router (Fastroute) with other implementations, like the Symfony Router. Technically it should also be possible to replace FastRoute with league/route.

Here is an example:

5

Thanks for your help/suggestion