Re: Newbie - Request interface for PHP 5 website

Greg Donald wrote:

On 6/2/05, Info@Best-IT <info@best-it.biz> wrote:

For PHP 4.x sites I used my index page to capture the HTTP request and use a switch statement to call the content or task based on the $_GET and $_POST arrays. That was very inefficient and the Switch case became totally unmanageable along with the rest of the site. I am re-designing the site using PHP5 and OO design patterns like Composite and Builder as an example. I know these are basic patterns but its a start. Anyway I am not sure how to capture the HTTP request and pass it to the relevant objects. Is there a generic Œway¹ developers process the request to call the classes and generate the needed objects in PHP5?

I'd use $_REQUEST if I were expecting to access both $_GET and $_POST arrays frequently/equally. __autoload() is pretty handy, keeps you from writing tons of include statements.

I agree with Greg. Although I would add that if you are using GET / POST arguments to determine which pages to include then you minimally want to filter to be sure they don't try to read sensitive files (/etc/passwd, "My Documents", and the like). And since I'm paranoid I might also want to escapeshellarg() the $_REQUEST variable you're using. -- Teach a man to fish... NEW? | http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html STFA | http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general&w=2 STFM | http://php.net/manual/en/index.php STFW | http://www.google.com/search?q=php LAZY | http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?name=PHP&submitform=Find+search+plugins