PHP routing system

I made a routing system for PHP inspired by Symfony's router composed of a few classes.

First I am using Symfony's HTTP Foundations component. Then, I am emulating the classes in the routing component but with almost completely my own implementation (I did copy few lines).

The whole system is not simple so I won't be making it the focus of the question, though, this is the GitHub link, and I would be grateful for a full review (rip me apart).

I will provide the class that matches and parses the routes and I would like to know what I can improve.

There is a parser class

<?php

namespace Routing;

/**
    * Takes an instance of Routing\Route object
    * Extracts the variables from wildcards
    * Calculates a regex that can be used to match routes with urls
*/

class RouteParser
{   
    /**
        * Asks for a route, extracts info that can be used later
        *
        * @param Route               Routing/Route
        *
        * @return array              Array with parsed values 
    */
    public function parseRoute(Route $route)
    {
        $variables = array();

        $parsed = self::parse($route->getPath());

        return ['variables' => $parsed['variables'], 'matcherReg' => $parsed['regex']];
    }

    /**
        * Takes a string pattern, matches it with regexes
        *
        * @param string              The pattern 
        *
        * @return array              Array with parsed values 
    */
    private static function parse($pattern)
    {   
        $matches = '';
        $variables = array();
        $pos = 0;
        $reg = '#'; //It seems that regex must start and end with a delimiter
        $nextText = '';

        if($pattern == '/')
        {   
            $reg = '#^[\/]+$#';

            return ['variables' => '', 'regex' => $reg];
        }

        //Check if generated regexes are stored, if so it skips the whole process
        if(apc_exists($pattern))
        {
            $cacheI = apc_fetch($pattern);
            return $cacheI;
        }

        //Extracts the variables enclosed in {}
        preg_match_all('#\{\w+\}#', $pattern, $matches, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE | PREG_SET_ORDER);

        //Puts each variable in array 
        //Uses the text before and after to create a regex for the rest of the pattern - $precedingText, $nextText
        //If no wildcard is detected in the path it splits it into segments and compiles are regex
        foreach ($matches as $match) 
        {   
            $varName = substr($match[0][0], 1, -1);
            $precedingText = substr($pattern, $pos, $match[0][1] - $pos);
            $pos = $match[0][1] + strlen($match[0][0]);
            $nxt = $pos - strlen($pattern);
            if($nxt == 0) $nxt = strlen($pattern);

            $nextText = substr($pattern, $nxt);

            $precSegments = explode('/', $precedingText);
            $precSegments = array_splice($precSegments, 1);

            //Pulls a regex from the preeceding segment, each variable segment is replaced with '\/[a-zA-Z0-9]+'
            if(strlen($precedingText) > 1)
            {       
                foreach($precSegments as $key => $value) {  
                    $reg .= '\/';
                    $reg .= $value; 
                }

                $reg .= '[a-zA-Z0-9]+';  
            }
            else
            {
                $reg .= '\/[a-zA-Z0-9]+';
            }

            $nextText = str_replace('/', '\/', $nextText);

            if(is_numeric($varName)) {
                throw new \Exception('Argument cannot be a number');
            }

            if (in_array($varName, $variables)) {
                throw new \Exception(sprintf('More then one occurrence of variable name "%s".', $varName));
            }

            $variables[] = $varName;    
        }

        //If no variable names, wildcards are found in pattern : /hello/static/path it will replace it with \/hello\/static\/path
        if(count($matches) < 1 && $pattern != '/')
        {   
            $reg .= str_replace('/', '\/', $pattern);
        }

        $reg = $reg . $nextText;
        $reg .= '#';

        apc_store($pattern, ['variables' => $variables, 'regex' => $reg]);

        return ['variables' => $variables, 'regex' => $reg];
    }
}

and a matcher class

<?php 

namespace Routing;

use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;

class Matcher 
{   
    /**
        * @var RouteCollection
    */
    private $routes;

    /**
        * @var Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request
    */
    private $request;

    /**
     * Constructor.
     *
     * @param RouteCollection $routes                   A RouteCollection instance
     * @param Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request  A Symfony Request
     */
    public function __construct(Request $request, RouteCollection $collection)
    {
        $this->routes = $collection;
        $this->request = $request;
    }

    public function matchRequest()
    {   
        $return = array();

        foreach ($this->routes->all() as $name => $route)
        {       
            if(preg_match($route['parsed']['matcherReg'], $this->request->getPathInfo()))   
            {
                if(!in_array($this->request->getMethod(), $route['route']->getHttpMethods()))
                {
                    throw new \Exception(sprintf('Method "%s" not allowed', $this->request->getMethod()), 1);
                }
                //var_dump($this->request);
                return [
                    '_vars' => $route['parsed']['variables'],
                    '_controller' => $route['route']->getController(),
                    '_varValues' => self::realVariables($route['route']->getPath(), $this->request->getPathInfo())
                ];
            }
        }

        throw new \Exception(sprintf('Route for "%s" not found', $this->request->getPathInfo()), 1);
    }

    private static function realVariables($routePath, $pathInfo)
    {
        $i = 0;
        $poss = [];
        $vars = [];

        $routeSegs = explode('/', $routePath);
        $segs = explode('/', $pathInfo);

        foreach ($routeSegs as $key => $value) {
            if(preg_match('#\{\w+\}#', $value))
            {   
                $poss[] = $i;

            }
            $i++;
        }
        $segs = array_splice($segs, 1);

        foreach ($poss as $key => $index) {
            $vars[] = $segs[$index];
        }

        return $vars;
    }
}

They are used in an index.php, as in this excerpt:

<?php

$request = Request::createFromGlobals();    
$response = new Response();


$routes->add('name', new Route(['GET'], 'hi/{p1}/cicki/{p2}', function($p1, $p2) use ($response) {
        $response->setContent($p1 . ' - ' . $p2);
}));

try
{
    $urlMatcher = new Matcher($request, $routes);
    $rez = $urlMatcher->matchRequest();
} 
catch(Exception $e) {echo $e;} 

call_user_func_array($rez['_controller'], $rez['_varValues']);
$response->send();

So it basically takes a path pattern, with static strings or parameters enclosed in {}, extracts the parameters and generates a regex to be compared to the URL, if it matches it returns the parameters, their values, the controller (a PHP closure) and it doesn't yet support optional parameters.

Edit: You may notice that I am caching my regexes with apc, so I would like to underline that after a route removal I am not invalidating the cache(A feature I still have to work on).