Multiple Parameters in Engine Routes in PHP

Suppose now our site has categories and pages belonging to these categories. Let's create a table with categories:

categories
id	slug	name
1	first-category	name1
2	second-category	name2

And a table with pages:

pages
id	slug	title	content	category_id
1	my-first-page	title1	<div> content1 </div>	1
2	my-second-page	title2	<div> content2 </div>	1
3	my-third-page	title3	<div> content3 </div>	2

On our site, we allow page slugs from different categories to match. This means that in the URL we must first specify the category slug, and then the page slug according to this scheme: /page/:category/:page, where the colons indicate the places for variable parameters.

Let's write the routes for our site:

<?php
	$route = '^/page/(?<catSlug>[a-z0-9_-]+)/(?<pageSlug>[a-z0-9_-]+)
;
	if (preg_match("#$route#", $url, $params)) {
		$page = include 'view/page/show.php';
	}
	
	$route = '^/page/(?<catSlug>[a-z0-9_-]+)
;
	if (preg_match("#$route#", $url, $params)) {
		$page = include 'view/page/category.php';
	}
	
	$route = '^/
;
	if (preg_match("#$route#", $url, $params)) {
		$page = include 'view/page/all.php';
	}
?>

In the handler of the first route, we will show the requested page:

<?php
	$catSlug = $params['catSlug'];
	$pageSlug = $params['pageSlug'];
	
	$query = "SELECT pages.title, pages.content 
		FROM pages
	LEFT JOIN
		category ON category.id=pages.category_id
	WHERE
		pages.slug='$pageSlug' AND category.slug='$catSlug'";
	
	$res = mysqli_query($link, $query) or die(mysqli_error($link));
	$page = mysqli_fetch_assoc($res);
	
	return $page;
?>

In the handler of the second route, we will show the list of pages from the specified category:

<?php
	$catSlug = $params['catSlug'];
	
	$query = "SELECT pages.slug, pages.title FROM pages
	LEFT JOIN
		category ON category.id=pages.category_id
	WHERE
		category.slug='$catSlug'";
	
	$res = mysqli_query($link, $query) or die(mysqli_error($link));
	
	for ($data = []; $row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($res); $data[] = $row);
	
	$content = '';
	foreach ($data as $page) {
		$content .= '
			<div>
				<a href="/page/' . $catSlug . '/'  . $page['slug'] . '">' . $page['title'] . '</a>
			</div>
		';
	}
	
	$page = [
		'title' => 'list of all pages in category ' . $catSlug,
		'content' => $content
	];
	
	return $page;
?>

Suppose you have a site with cities and countries. Let the address / display a list of all countries, the address /:country display a list of cities of the country specified in the parameter, and the address /:country/:city display the description of the specified city.