On the TutsPlus.com site today there's a new tutorial where they spotlight one of the components in the Symfony framework: the routing component. The tutorial outlines some of the basics about the component, installing it and putting it to use.

The Symfony Routing Component is a very popular routing component which is adapted by several frameworks and provides a lot of flexibility should you wish to set up routes in your PHP application.

If you've built a custom PHP application and are looking for a feature-rich routing library, the Symfony Routing Component is more than a worth a look. It also allows you to define routes for your application in the YAML format. Starting with installation and configuration, we'll go through real-world examples to demonstrate a variety of options the component has for route configuration.

The tutorial starts with the commands to get the component installed (via Composer) and other related components for YAML parsing, HTTP handling and configuration parsing. It then provides examples of:

• setting up the instance and defining some basic routes
• how route matching works
• loading routes from a YAML file

The tutorial finishes with an example of an "all in one" router that pulls in the route configuration and creates a new Router instance with them ready and waiting to handle requests.