Strangebuzz...?

[En] Here is a little tip Fabien gave me. I am actually developing a plugin witch has quiet a lot of routes (about 40). Normally you can add the routes with the prependRoute function, like does the sfGuardplugin.

<?php
if (sfConfig::get('app_sf_guard_plugin_routes_register', true) && in_array('sfGuardAuth', sfConfig::get('sf_enabled_modules', array())))
{
  $r = sfRouting::getInstance();
 	
  // preprend our routes
  $r->prependRoute('sf_guard_signin', '/login', array('module' => 'sfGuardAuth', 'action' => 'signin'));
  $r->prependRoute('sf_guard_signout', '/logout', array('module' => 'sfGuardAuth', 'action' => 'signout'));
  $r->prependRoute('sf_guard_password', '/request_password', array('module' => 'sfGuardAuth', 'action' => 'password'));
}
?>

But for each prependRoute call an array_merge is done on all existing routes.

<?php
  /**
   * Adds a new route at the beginning of the current list of routes.
   *
   * @see connect
   */
  public function prependRoute($name, $route, $default = array(), $requirements = array())
  {
    $routes = $this->routes;
    $this->routes = array();
    $newroutes = $this->connect($name, $route, $default, $requirements);
    $this->routes = array_merge($newroutes, $routes);
 
    return $this->routes;
  }
?>

So the tip here is to save all routes, clear them, add the routes of the plugin and then append the saved routes. Witch can be done like this:

<?php
  // Save and clear all routes
  $r = sfRouting::getInstance();
  $routes = $r->getRoutes();
  $r->clearRoutes();
  
  // Plugin home
  $r->connect('plugin_home', '/my_super_plugin/homepage', array(
    'module' => 'my_plugin_module', 
    'action' => 'my_plugin_action',
    'additional_parameter'   => 1
    ));
 
  // Another route
  $r->connect('plugin_home', '/my_super_plugin/section1', array(
    'module' => 'my_plugin_module', 
    'action' => 'my_plugin_action_section1',
    'additional_parameter'   => 2
    ));
 
  // ... other routes
 
  // Then merge new routes with the saved one
  $r->setRoutes($r->getRoutes() + $routes);
?>

That's it. Of course it is always better to have all routes of the application in the routing.yml but in my case it was not possible.