55The Routing Component
66=====================
77
8- The Routing Component maps an HTTP request to a set of configuration
8+ The Routing Component maps an HTTP request to a set of configuration
99 variables.
1010
1111Installation
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ your autoloader to load the Routing component::
4141
4242 $matcher = new UrlMatcher($routes, $context);
4343
44- $parameters = $matcher->match( '/foo' );
44+ $parameters = $matcher->match( '/foo' );
4545 // array('controller' => 'MyController', '_route' => 'route_name')
4646
4747..note ::
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ your autoloader to load the Routing component::
5151 matching. An easy way to solve this is to use the HTTPFoundation component
5252 as explained:ref: `below<components-routing-http-foundation> `.
5353
54- You can add as many routes as you like to a
54+ You can add as many routes as you like to a
5555:class: `Symfony\\ Component\\ Routing\\ RouteCollection `.
5656
5757The:method: `RouteCollection::add()<Symfony\\ Component\\ Routing\\ RouteCollection::add> `
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ URL path and some array of custom variables in its constructor. This array
6161of custom variables can be *anything * that's significant to your application,
6262and is returned when that route is matched.
6363
64- If no matching route can be found a
64+ If no matching route can be found a
6565:class: `Symfony\\ Component\\ Routing\\ Exception\\ ResourceNotFoundException ` will be thrown.
6666
6767In addition to your array of custom variables, a ``_route `` key is added,
@@ -106,29 +106,29 @@ In this case, the route is matched by ``/archive/2012-01``, because the ``{month
106106wildcard matches the regular expression wildcard given. However, ``/archive/foo ``
107107does *not * match, because "foo" fails the month wildcard.
108108
109- Besides the regular expression constraints there are two special requirements
109+ Besides the regular expression constraints there are two special requirements
110110you can define:
111111
112112* ``_method `` enforces a certain HTTP request method (``HEAD ``, ``GET ``, ``POST ``, ...)
113- * ``_scheme `` enforces a certain HTTP scheme (``http ``, ``https ``)
113+ * ``_scheme `` enforces a certain HTTP scheme (``http ``, ``https ``)
114114
115115For example, the following route would only accept requests to /foo with
116116the POST method and a secure connection::
117117
118118 $route = new Route('/foo', array('_method' => 'post', '_scheme' => 'https' ));
119119
120120..tip ::
121-
121+
122122 If you want to match all urls which start with a certain path and end in an
123123 arbitrary suffix you can use the following route definition::
124-
124+
125125 $route = new Route('/start/{suffix}', array('suffix' => ''), array('suffix' => '.*'));
126-
126+
127127
128128Using Prefixes
129129~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
130130
131- You can add routes or other instances of
131+ You can add routes or other instances of
132132:class: `Symfony\\ Component\\ Routing\\ RouteCollection ` to *another * collection.
133133This way you can build a tree of routes. Additionally you can define a prefix,
134134default requirements and default options to all routes of a subtree::
@@ -144,18 +144,18 @@ default requirements and default options to all routes of a subtree::
144144Set the Request Parameters
145145~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
146146
147- The:class: `Symfony\\ Component\\ Routing\\ RequestContext ` provides information
147+ The:class: `Symfony\\ Component\\ Routing\\ RequestContext ` provides information
148148about the current request. You can define all parameters of an HTTP request
149149with this class via its constructor::
150150
151151 public function __construct($baseUrl = '', $method = 'GET', $host = 'localhost', $scheme = 'http', $httpPort = 80, $httpsPort = 443)
152152
153153.. _components-routing-http-foundation :
154154
155- Normally you can pass the values from the ``$_SERVER `` variable to populate the
155+ Normally you can pass the values from the ``$_SERVER `` variable to populate the
156156:class: `Symfony\\ Component\\ Routing\\ RequestContext `. But If you use the
157- :doc: `HttpFoundation<http_foundation> ` component, you can use its
158- :class: `Symfony\\ Component\\ HttpFoundation\\ Request ` class to feed the
157+ :doc: `HttpFoundation<http_foundation> ` component, you can use its
158+ :class: `Symfony\\ Component\\ HttpFoundation\\ Request ` class to feed the
159159:class: `Symfony\\ Component\\ Routing\\ RequestContext ` in a shortcut::
160160
161161 use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ have to provide the name of a php file which returns a :class:`Symfony\\Componen
250250Routes as Closures
251251..................
252252
253- There is also the:class: `Symfony\\ Component\\ Routing\\ Loader\\ ClosureLoader `, which
253+ There is also the:class: `Symfony\\ Component\\ Routing\\ Loader\\ ClosureLoader `, which
254254calls a closure and uses the result as a:class: `Symfony\\ Component\\ Routing\\ RouteCollection `::
255255
256256 use Symfony\Component\Routing\Loader\ClosureLoader;
@@ -280,9 +280,9 @@ a path to the main route definition and some other settings::
280280
281281 public function __construct(LoaderInterface $loader, $resource, array $options = array(), RequestContext $context = null, array $defaults = array());
282282
283- With the ``cache_dir `` option you can enable route caching (if you provide a
284- path) or disable caching (if it's set to ``null ``). The caching is done
285- automatically in the background if you want to use it. A basic example of the
283+ With the ``cache_dir `` option you can enable route caching (if you provide a
284+ path) or disable caching (if it's set to ``null ``). The caching is done
285+ automatically in the background if you want to use it. A basic example of the
286286:class: `Symfony\\ Component\\ Routing\\ Router ` class would look like::
287287
288288 $locator = new FileLocator(array(__DIR__));
@@ -298,6 +298,15 @@ automatically in the background if you want to use it. A basic example of the
298298
299299..note ::
300300
301- If you use caching, the Routing component will compile new classes which
302- are saved in the ``cache_dir ``. This means your script must have write
301+ If you use caching, the Routing component will compile new classes which
302+ are saved in the ``cache_dir ``. This means your script must have write
303303 permissions for that location.
304+
305+
306+ ..tip ::
307+
308+ As of Symfony 2.1, the Routing component also accepts Unicode values
309+ in routes like this::
310+
311+ $routes->add('unicode_route', new Route('/Жени'));
312+