PHP for Beginners - Ep. 15 PHP router issues

@jlrdw - thanks for the info however I am not running wampserver. I am running php -S localhost:8888.

@kdarel did you run your command from the root directory ?

@iamputhea yes I went back and triple checked that I am in fact in the demo directory

@kdarel on the /about route, what is the complete url that is working?

@jlrdw if I click in the address bar and type in localhost:8888/about I can get to the about page. If I click on the About nav button, I immediately get the error I posted and if I click on the address bar the url it is showing localhost:8888/controllers/about. I have attempted to dd($uri) in the demo/index.php file to get the route it is trying, but I never get to the dd function I just get the error

@kdarel show the code for the About nav button.

Pretty sure controllers doesn't belong, I looked at the github code, but can't tell why its happening.

@jlrdw here is the wesites/demo/index.php file:

<?php
require 'functions.php';
$uri = parse_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'])['path'];
if ($uri === '/') {
    require 'controllers/index.php';
} else if ($uri === '/about') {
    require 'controllers/about.php';
} else if ($uri === '/contact') {
    require 'controllers/contact.php';
} else if ($uri === '/mission') {
    require 'controllers/mission.php';
}

here is the websites/demo/controllers/about.php file

<?php
$heading = "About Us";
require ("views/about.view.php");

@kdarel your router is setup like:

<?php

namespace Core;

use Core\Middleware\Authenticated;
use Core\Middleware\Guest;
use Core\Middleware\Middleware;

class Router
{
    protected $routes = [];

    public function add($method, $uri, $controller)
    {
        $this->routes[] = [
            'uri' => $uri,
            'controller' => $controller,
            'method' => $method,
            'middleware' => null
        ];

        return $this;
    }

    public function get($uri, $controller)
    {
        return $this->add('GET', $uri, $controller);
    }

    public function post($uri, $controller)
    {
        return $this->add('POST', $uri, $controller);
    }

    public function delete($uri, $controller)
    {
        return $this->add('DELETE', $uri, $controller);
    }

    public function patch($uri, $controller)
    {
        return $this->add('PATCH', $uri, $controller);
    }

    public function put($uri, $controller)
    {
        return $this->add('PUT', $uri, $controller);
    }

    public function only($key)
    {
        $this->routes[array_key_last($this->routes)]['middleware'] = $key;

        return $this;
    }

    public function route($uri, $method)
    {
        foreach ($this->routes as $route) {
            if ($route['uri'] === $uri && $route['method'] === strtoupper($method)) {
                Middleware::resolve($route['middleware']);

                return require base_path('Http/controllers/' . $route['controller']);
            }
        }

        $this->abort();
    }

    public function previousUrl()
    {
        return $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
    }

    protected function abort($code = 404)
    {
        http_response_code($code);

        require base_path("views/{$code}.php");

        die();
    }
}

@kdarel try downloading the one from github and see if it works out of the box.

Edit:

I placed the code on my windows 11 computer and everything works.

@kdarel could you show me your navigation code of your nav links files.

@Shivamyadav - hey man I wanted to thank you for pointing me to look at the nav.php file. It turns out, that the the href for the buttons was coded to 'controllers/about' etc and by correcting the path to '/about', '/contact' etc everything is now working as it should on both computers. Thanks again :)

@kdarel yeah! Man I doubted on your nav links when I read whole forum where you have mentioned that when you look on your url after clicking on navigation links the links point to the different path.