RE: [PHP] PHP Application Structre

-----Original Message----- From: Alex Major [mailto:php@allydm.co.uk] Sent: 10 May 2010 12:39 PM From what I've seen and used, there seem to be three distinct ways of going about it. 1) Using a 'core' class which has a request handler in it. All pages in the site are accessed through that one page, e.g. http://www.somesite.com/index.php?page=ViewUser http://www.somesite.com/index.php?page=ViewProduct This is one that I've personally used most after becoming familiar with a bulletin board system several years ago. It means that pages are easily created as all the template/session/database handling is done by the central class. 2) Using SE friendly URL's like: http://www.somesite.com/products/22012/cool-game/ http://www.somesite.com/products/22013/other-game/ This approach seems to be becoming more common on the sites I frequent, however by accounts I've read it seems to be more intensive on apache as it requires a mod-rewrite function. 3) Using different PHP files for each page: http://www.somesite.com/viewproduct.php?product=.... http://www.somesite.com/viewuser.php?user=... This would appear to be the least developer friendly option? Alex. ============= The second option doesn't really belong here, because you could go for option 1 or option 3, and then decide whether to hide your implementation behind a mod-rewrite. Option 2 would rather be part of a separate question "what is the cost/benefit of using mod-rewrite". Cheers Arno