Topic: Creating my own framework, have a question about URI

[spaze]

Hello all,

I am writing my own framework and stumbled upon a problem.

I want to determine controller and action from the given URL. So far I have been using the URI to fetch the first and second section from the URI, but this is limited to having the application and domain root (www.domain.com)

If I would have my framework in sub-directories, ie. www.domain.com/sub1/sub2/sub3, and then call index/show, the first section I would fetch would be sub1 and second sub2

How can I effectively code this so that I would always get the index and show from www.domain.com/sub1/sub2/sub3/index/show even if I would have more sections after this?

What I'm tryng to say is, how can I dynamically fetch these two like so:

www.domain.com/index/show -> URI = index/show

www.domain.com/sub1/sub2/sub3/index/show/param1/param2 -> URI = index/show

Currently the latter returns sub1/sub2/sub3/index/show/param1/param2 and this is not what I need.

[thorpe]

You need to add an option to set the base uri within your controller. By default this would be set to / but if I wanted to use your framework from within the subdirectory foo, I would set the base uri to be /foo.

[spaze]

You need to add an option to set the base uri within your controller. By default this would be set to / but if I wanted to use your framework from within the subdirectory foo, I would set the base uri to be /foo.

Can I do this from the PHP or do I have to modify the .htaccess file?

[thorpe]

You would write it into your framework.

[spaze]

You would write it into your framework.

I do have BASE_DIR parameter that only shows where the controllers are located, but this won't help me get the requested controller name from the URL.

[thorpe]

Of course it won't, it has nothing to do with what you are asking.

[spaze]

Of course it won't, it has nothing to do with what you are asking.

Since I don't quite get what you trying to say, can you lead me a little toward the right direction?

[thorpe]

I'm not sure what you approach is for getting your controllers / actions at present but I'll assume it's something simple.

A simple example.


function parseuri($uri, $basepath=null) {
    $uri = str_replace(array('http://', $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].'/'),'',$uri);
    if (null != $basepath) {
        $uri = str_replace($basepath,'',$uri);
    }

    $parts = explode('/', $ur);

    return array('controller' => $parts[0], 'action' => $parts[1]);

}

print_r(parseuri('http://foo.com/c/a'));
print_r(parseuri('http://foo.com/subdir/c/a','subdir'));


This is just an example, and not at all tested but I hope it gets the idea accross.

[spaze]

I'm not sure what you approach is for getting your controllers / actions at present but I'll assume it's something simple.

A simple example.


function parseuri($uri, $basepath=null) {
    $uri = str_replace(array('http://', $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].'/'),'',$uri);
    if (null != $basepath) {
        $uri = str_replace($basepath,'',$uri);
    }

    $parts = explode('/', $ur);

    return array('controller' => $parts[0], 'action' => $parts[1]);

}

print_r(parseuri('http://foo.com/c/a'));
print_r(parseuri('http://foo.com/subdir/c/a','subdir'));


This is just an example, and not at all tested but I hope it gets the idea accross.

Thanks for your reply. I have done this already and current version does just this, but since the user needs to configure the application by having to know the base I was hoping to find a way to automize this.

It would be neat to find the base_uri from which the script is running so that I could replace the URI portion of this base_uri with blank.

[thorpe]

That would be more problematic than helpful. What if your users are using aliased directories?

[spaze]

That would be more problematic than helpful. What if your users are using aliased directories?

I see your point Perhaps the configuration of BASE_URL is not so complicated after all.

Thanks for your help!