Re: Re: [PEPr] Comment on Console::Console_Getargs

On 4/29/04 3:58 AM Pacific Time, Lukas Smith (smith@backendmedia.com) wrote: > Sergio Carvalho wrote: > >> Lukas Smith wrote: >> >>> this can be quite cool. for example my www parser can handle >>> mod_rewrite as well as get/post. with a single change in my config >>> file i can make my entire system use mod_rewrite for parameter passing. >> >> >> What do you mean handle mod_rewrite? Extract information from 'nice' >> URLs? Such as when you rewrite: >> /xpto/pear.php?f=foo --> /xpto/foo/ >> That'd be quite cool. > > something along those lines .. > > usually you work with key value pairs however. > my system can however also be configured to expect a certain param order > for part of the url string and in this case the key can be omitted This is really funny -- I had a brainstorm just this evening and was just writing up a little spec document for myself that I planned to turn into a proposal for "Tools_UrlTransform". The idea is to use output buffering to convert all URLs on a page from this: /path/to/script.php?f=foo&b=bar&abc=xyz To this: /path/to/script.php/f!foo/b!bar/abc!xyz/throwaway.html Two basic methods: Tools_UrlTransform::Encode() ---------------------------- Does conversion along the lines of the above with an output buffering callback. Settable public properties include: - key-val separator (one of "-" | "_" | "." | "!" | "~" | "*" | "'" | "(" | ")") (whatever separator is chosen would then be encoded in the values to retain them within if they happen to be in there). - key to ignore (in above example, setting "ignore_key" to "abc" would result in a URL like this: /path/to/script.php/f!foo/b!bar/throwaway.html?abc=xyz) - throwaway (something to tack on the end of a generated URL for asthetic purposes that would be discarded in the Tools_UrlTransform::Decode() method) Tools_UrlTransform::Decode() ----------------------------- Takes the "made up" URL and converts it back to what was originally intended. For example: /path/to/script.php/f!foo/b!bar/throwaway.html?abc=xyz Would parse $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] out to: $_REQUEST['f'] = 'foo'; $_REQUEST['b'] = 'bar'; $_REQUEST['abc'] = 'xyz'; $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] = 'f=foo&b=bar&abc=xyz'; ... Ignoring the throwaway aspect of PATH_INFO. This could be dropped into the top of any script/page to convert URLs. (Ha -- just as I finish writing this, I see Bertrand's e-mail pointing to the Ismo framework, which has Ismo_Core_Url, which does almost exactly what I just described.) Heh. Anyway, this seems like it would be a cool and handy standalone package. Worth pursuing to a full proposal? -Clay -- Killersoft.com