PHP PCRE - 匹配“没有”

Question

I'm trying to match my application uri to a set of routes, and for the default route I thought about allowing bb.com/home or bb.com/ (empty) to be the allowed options on the first uri segment, and the same for the second. I'm not sure the way I am checking for empty values is the best :

#^/?(?P<controller>([.*]{0}|home))(?:/(?P<action>([.*]{0}|test)))?/?$#uD

Notice the [.*]{0}

Is there a better way to do it?

Answer 1

You could make it lazy: .*?, that should match nothing every time.

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Also, you don't have to have so many capture groups. You even have a numbered capture group within a named capture group. This is how I would write the expression:

^/?(?P<controller>.*?|home)/(?P<action>.*?|test)/?$

This retains the two named capture groups, but gets rid of the nested numbered capture group and also the non-capturing group which was not necessary.