How to use Angular 4 with PHP routes? - php

Question

I created a blank new project on Angular 4 (with angular-cli) in order to try to use it with PHP Routes, I'm using Phroute Fast route.
Before trying this I used to call the whole file with a param to call a specific function, like this:
angular service
apiGet(): any {
return this._http.get('api/server/user.php?action=getUser');
}
I tried to install the Phroute but it didn't worked, when I try to call it like the code bellow, I get the following error:
apiGet(): any {
return this._http.get('api/user');
}
GET http://localhost/api/index.php net::ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS
Folder structure:
api/
server/ (used to call files with extensions)
vendor/
index.php
index.html
bundle.js
[..other angular files..]
index.php
require 'vendor/autoload.php';
function processInput($uri) {
$uri = implode('/', array_slice(
explode('/', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']), 3
));
return $uri;
}
function processOutput($response){
echo json_encode($response);
}
$router = new Phroute\RouteCollector(new Phroute\RouteParser);
$router->get('user', function(){
return 'Hello, PHRoute!';
});
$dispatcher = new Phroute\Dispatcher(router);
try {
$response = $dispatcher->dispatch($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'], processInput($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']));
} catch (Phroute\Exception\HttpRouteNotFoundException $e) {
var_dump($e);
die();
} catch (Phroute\Exception\HttpMethodNotAllowedException $e) {
var_dump($e);
die();
}
processOutput($response);
.htaccess
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} api
RewriteRule ^ /api/index.php [L,R]
# This code needs to be used in order to enable refresh
# and redirects on the Angular routes
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index.html$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.html [L]
</IfModule>
Note: Keep in mind I'm very new to this PHP route concept, so any other advice is also welcome!
So I'd like to know how do I properly configure this to make it work? I didn't found any tutorial on this topic, so it was very confusing to me.