URL routing and regular expressions

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If you know what exactly each segment of URL should mean, isn’t that will be easier to just split them?
Something like this (sample code, haven’t tested):

function getRoute($url){

    $url = trim($url, '/');
    $urlSegments = explode('/', $url);

    $scheme = ['area', 'controller', 'action', 'params'];
    $route = [];

    foreach ($urlSegments as $index => $segment){        
        if ($scheme[$index] == 'params'){
            $route['params'] = array_slice($urlSegments, $index);
            break;
        } else {
            $route[$scheme[$index]] = $segment;
        }
    }

    return $route;

}

then if you call

getRoute('/site/vm/view/1/2');

it should return

[
    'area' => 'site',
    'controller' => 'vm',
    'action' => 'view',
    'params' => [1, 2]
]

And I wouldn’t treat page number as something standalone. Basically, it can be passed as one of regular params.

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