PHP - Cakephp Admin Routing?

Okay, so now I need help evolving my Log-In system...   

Up until now, the only place a user could log-in was on a given Article page if they wanted to add a comment to the Article.

To accommodate that feature, I was setting the "Return To Page" only in my "article.php" script like this...

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$_SESSION['returnToPage'] = $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] . '?title=' . $articleTitle;

However, now I want to expand things.

I'm growing increasingly confused about how to manage where to route people when they long-in?! 

1.) Sometimes a user will Log-In and want to return where they were at  (e.g. index.php, article1234.php)

2.) Sometimes a user might want to continue down a path (e.g. Checking Out, Registering for a Workshop, Sending a Message)

Is there some kind of strategy to handle this?  (nothing over complex, but there must be some Best Practices that work?!



Debbie

Hi

I relatively new to MVC and trying to understand it all by coding my own MVC framework. I already have coded my (own variant) MVC application: a router calling controllers each creating CRUD(L)* forms (views) onto separate db tables. Now I want to create a dashboard with multiple forms each modifying a separate database table. I already have the ability for one controller to call another controller ad infinitum. However when I press "modify" on one of the forms I do not know how to route (call the router) to rebuild the dashboard restoring all the other forms (ie other controllers) to the same state they were in when my target form requested a modification.

Basically I don't know how to go about routing in a hierarchical or nested MVC framework. Should I design a complex (non-linear tree-like) URL request that captures the state of my dashboard and have a very complex router that can decode it? Should each action be idempotent or should I use state in the session to make the request URL easier?

*CRUD(L) a view with different forms for CRUD and L(ist) operations each invling different controller methods.

I have tried searching under "HMVC" (but that seems to mean "modules") and "nested MVC" but for both terms I mostly get referred to established frameworks.

Cheers

GAJ

Creating a basic MVC framework.
I may confuse myself while asking this, so bare with me if this is confusing for you also...


As far as i understand, the URLs are in the following format:
www.example.com/controller/method/args

My goal here is to not show 'method' in the URL if it's not necessary.

For example,
www.example.com/contact

instead of
www.example.com/contact/view.

This is OK. I can accomplish this. But problems arise when I want to pass arguments in the URL.

Say I have the URL:
www.example.com/users   <----- this would by default, user the controller 'users' and call default method, 'view'..just list all users.

But say i want to view a user.. John.
www.example.com/users/john

How can I make my script know that 'john' is an argument, and not a method? The only way I can think of this is if I always have a method in the url .. like www.example.com/users/view/username/john

As of now, my script breaks up the URL at / and the first element in the array is is the controller. It calls the controller with the other arguments.

so www.example.com/users/john. The script would do (simplified)

$controller = 'users'

$controller = new $controller('john')

the 'Users' class would then see if 'john' is a method. If it is, call it, if not, then call the default method (view) with john as argument...
but what if I have a method called 'edit' and someone's username is edit? then www.example.com/users/edit would be a problem.

So my guestion to you guy is... how do you deal with this issue?

If you have www.example.com/users/edit, how do you let the script know that 'edit' is someone's username and now a method to call?
Do you pass the method in the url like so www.example.com/users/edit/edit ?

 Or if you have worked with a framework (Zend, cakePHP, Symfony, CodeIgniter, etc), how does the framework handle it?

Ideally, i would like to be able to have www.example.com/users/john instead of www.example.com/users/view/id/john

Hi guys, I am developing an MVC application and need some advice about how to set up url routing. Currently I can map a uri to modules/controllers and actions. I though I might leave the routing to last but it seems like that might have been a bad idea. Initially I though I might implement a Zend style routing approach and I still want to do this, but I am lost for thoughs on how I might go about this, I have looked at the zend router classes and understand the principle but cant seem to implement it in my own mvc.

So far I have this,
$router is an instance of a router class. mapRoute takes a route name and a route object as parameters. The name will be used for convinience. The second parameter takes a route instance which currently takes two parameters, where param1 is a route pattern and param2 is deafult values for when a uri macthes the route pattern. So if a user types http://example/user/23,

the router should map to user controller, profile action. The id, which is 23, will need to be injected into a request object. Finally the router object will be added to a front controller instance, so the front controller object can gain access to all the routes.

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                $router->mapRoute("user", new Route(
                                "user/<id>",
                                array(
                                    "controller"=>"user",
                                    "action"=>"profile"
                                )
                            )
                );

If any one has any ideas please do share, im not after code, unless you want to supply some, I just need some advice to stream line the whole process or what the best way might be. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

im tying to design and make a routing system for my mvc framework but im wondering the best way to do this if anyone could help on how the design pattern would be.

im thinking i would have a route config file which would contain all the routes for each file

routes.config

<?php
$routes = array('news' => 'news/index');
?>

then the routing class which would get the correct route depeding on the request class and get the dispatch class to load the controller and action?

if anyone could help on the best way to do this that would be great...thanks