Re: Adding URI Translation Handlers

Brian Moon (brianm@dealnews.com) wrote: > Isn't this what mod_rewrite is for? mod_rewrite works only in a static sense. You set up your rules, and fire up your Apache. If your rules change (as they certainly will in the case of 10,000 florists), you have to rewrite the rules file and restart apache. > http://florists.ftd.com/florists/rosebowlfloral/ It also doesn't address the issue of the various files which will be there. Path_info will work with one file, in the case of articles. But if each (in this case) florist has a series of files in their templates (product detail pages, personal accounts, ordering pages, etc) you're out of luck. The example is real; I was the lead developer for florists.ftd.com for most of last year. The point I'm making is that I would like to improve the Apache SAPI code for PHP to support more of the Apache server's features, like the request rewriting step, tear-up/tear-down, and even precompiling code when the server forks so that it doesn't need to be recomputed on every hit. Are there other people interested in this that would like to get a hacking crew together?