Routing
In the shortest terms, routing is about linking the controllers with URLs entered in browser. Todays modern web applications need nice URLs. This means moving away from URLs like /index.php?product_id=23 to something like /catalog/product/t-shirt. This is where routing comes in to play.
Symfony has a powerful routing mechanism that enables us to do the following:
- Create complex routes which map to controllers
- Generate URLs inside templates
- Generate URLs inside controllers
- Load routing resources from various locations
The way routing works in Symfony is that all of the requests come through app.php. Then, the Symfony core asks the router to inspect the request. The router then matches the incoming URL to a specific route and returns information ...
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