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smrtr/haltorouter
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A lightning fast HTTP router for PHP

1.5(11y ago)41.3k[2 issues](https://github.com/smrtr/HaltoRouter/issues)1MITPHPPHP >=5.3.0

Since Oct 2Pushed 9y ago2 watchersCompare

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[](#haltorouter--)

HaltoRouter is a small but powerful routing class for PHP 5.3+. HaltoRouter is a hard fork of [AltoRouter](https://github.com/dannyvankooten/AltoRouter) with the basepath functionality stripped out and hostgroup functionality baked in.

- Dynamic routing with named parameters
- Reversed routing (url generation)
- Host matching via flexible hostgroups
- Flexible regular expression routing (inspired by [Sinatra](http://www.sinatrarb.com))

Tutorial
--------

[](#tutorial)

1. [Overview, installation & getting started](http://resources.smrtr.co.uk/haltorouter/overview)
2. [Constructing routes](http://resources.smrtr.co.uk/haltorouter/constructing-routes)

- [Routes](http://resources.smrtr.co.uk/haltorouter/constructing-routes/routes)
- [Hostgroups](http://resources.smrtr.co.uk/haltorouter/constructing-routes/hostgroups)

3. [Handling requests](http://resources.smrtr.co.uk/haltorouter/handling-requests)
4. [Generating URLs](http://resources.smrtr.co.uk/haltorouter/generating-urls)

There are usage examples in the tests.

###  Health Score

29

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LowBetter than 59% of packages

Maintenance10

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity19

Limited adoption so far

Community12

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity62

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 90.5% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~98 days

Recently: every ~122 days

Total

6

Last Release

4118d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/a1ce943f5c99a0be65b726975e3c3d2898dfbdbcf07aa5525f39bd32ac9e8279?d=identicon)[joegreen88](/maintainers/joegreen88)

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Top Contributors

[![joegreen88](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1363420?v=4)](https://github.com/joegreen88 "joegreen88 (19 commits)")[![keugant](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1498189?v=4)](https://github.com/keugant "keugant (2 commits)")

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Tags

routerroutinglightweighthostgroups

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

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