| Re: Using a single php entry file for a whole site. [message #181857 is a reply to message #181854] |
Thu, 20 June 2013 17:48   |
Daniel Pitts
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On 6/20/13 10:22 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
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> What I would like to do, is the following.
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> ALL request to a site are redirected by apache rules to one single file.
> Let's call it index.php.
> Index.php notes the URL the user wants and looks it up in a database,
> and if it exists, includes() the actual PHP file for that page.
> If it doesn't exist, a standard 'sorry, you are looking for a page that
> doesn't exist' is returned, if possible with the correct error code in
> the headers?
> The php files themselves apart from index.php do NOT live under the web
> root. They might in fact live in the database. But that's stage 2.
>
> Is this possible, and if so what if any are the downsides?
This is almost what Symfony2 does. Though its far more sophisticated
than that as far as how it decides what PHP files to load and to use to
render the response. It is designed around MVC, rather than "Here's a
script to render the page."
It has a useful routing mechanism to match URLs and forward to
appropriate controllers, which then can decide actions to perform and
views to render.
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> It seems to me that a user or robot level scrape of the site would not
> show anything of its true internal structure. But still show all the
> paths through it.
>
> What I want to do is have stuff like
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> http:/mysite.com/news/Dog-Bites-Man
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> redirect to say
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> /var/private/newspage.php?id=3041
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> where there exists a mysql table with a name value pair of
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> news/Dog-Bites-Man: /var/private/newspage.php?id=3041
> or
> menu/Contact-the-webmaster: /var/private/contact.php?target=webmaster
>
> and so on.
What I've seen is that the web-server (nginx in my case, but Apache
should work too) forwards (not redirects) the request to exactly one
script "/path/to/my/site/web/index.php", which then does all the logic
for deciding the routes. Once that is determined, all the logic to
render that specific page is executed, and then the view is presented.
>
> And possible a field for keywords to search the site with.
Very doable.
Hope this helps,
Daniel.
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