| Re: Using a single php entry file for a whole site. [message #181869 is a reply to message #181854] |
Thu, 20 June 2013 19:54  |
Peter H. Coffin
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On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 18:22:18 +0100, 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?
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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.
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> 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
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> and so on.
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> And possible a field for keywords to search the site with.
You describe almost exactly how mediawiki works. Why not start looking
at that to see how it does it?
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14. The hero is not entitled to a last kiss, a last cigarette, or any
other form of last request.
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