Api route pattern on the SlimPhp microframework?

Question

Is there some pattern of routes and how to write the structure using SlimPhp?

Like, I made a api folder with a index.php to store ALL my routes:

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Answer 1

I usually have my own router before I involve Slim's router to determine which route to use based on the path after the domain:

public/index.php

chdir(dirname(__DIR__));

require_once 'vendor/autoload.php';

$app = new Slim\App;
require 'app/routes/index.php';
$app->run();

app/routes/index.php

$_url = parse_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
$_routes = explode('/',$_url['path']);
$_baseRoute = $_routes[1];

switch ($_baseRoute) {
    case 'api':
        $_routeFile = 'app/api/' . $_routes[2] . '.php';
        break;

    default:
        $_routeFile = 'app/routes/' . $_baseRoute . '.php';
        break;
}

if (file_exists($_routeFile)) {
    require $_routeFile;
}
else {
    die('Invalid API request');
}