Re: How many page scripts do we need?

On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, nathan r. hruby wrote:
[snip]
> >
> > I've been thinking about something for a long time, and this looks like
> > a good time to bring it up.  What about getting all URLs out of the
> > templates and objectifying them?  A url object would be able to parse
> > $QUERY_STRING and/or $PATH_INFO and decode it.  It would also have a
> > toString method which output would go into the templates.
> >
> > $url = new PslUrl();
> > $url->setPath("/index.php");
> > $url->setVar("foo","bar");
> > $url->toString() // returns index.php?foo=bar,
> >

[snip]
>
> I don't understand why this needs to be an object.  It'll get used
> everywhere, it's probably best in functions.inc and let the individual
> classes manage the storage of the variables.
>

To expand..

if it's an object that's needed, much of this framework lays already in
phplib session object, which we can expand from, if an object is *truly*
desired.  Again, I htink that having this in the globall scope would
probably be easier and faster in the long run.

// Set the inital URL we want
$url = '/foo.php';

// thake this and bring back an array of everything we need to develop a
// URI for what we want to ppoint at
$url = urlAddQuery($url, array('foo' => 'bar', 'session' => $sessid));

// it should look somehting like this.
print_r($url);
// Array(
//	[method] =>	$_PSL['protocol']
//	[base] =>	$_PSL['rooturl']
//	[file] =>	/foo.php
//	[args] =>	Array(
//		[foo] =>	bar
//		[session] =>	fjiweqcn ujnjrinu290vncu034vn u390vntu13
//	)
//)

// take that array and push it though a function to turn it into a URI
$tpl->add_var('URL', urlFinish($url));

Easier to grok, less creation/teardown costs, etc.. (I've been working on
another project that's wacked out but all procudural using jsut
include_once() to seperate code.  It's a mess to navigate and use, but
it's freakin' *fast* so my new thing is to look for places where we can
reduce/reuse existing structures or at least avoid introduccing new stuff.
:)

I belive that at one point we had talked about moving all URL generation
into $sess->url calls but felt that was a large undertaking for not a lot
of benifit.  This may be something we want to re-evaluate now that there
are motiviations other than session propigation for rewriting url's in a
predefined manner.

-n
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