PHP - Guide Me To Select Perfect Framework For A Script

Hi,

I am using Snoopy class to read contents of a web page. But it doesn't perfectly simulate the browser because the content of web page changes when I use Snoopy to fetch it. And if I view it in browser directly then content is different.
I even set the user agent string in Snoopy but still no luck.
How can we perfectly simulate browser so it is indistinguishable whether we are using some script or a browser to view web page?

Thanks

Here is the scenario:

I have phpbb installed inside of an iframe and I have all of these features working .....in firefox only:
Iframe re-sizes to fit content
external links within the forum open in a new window
traffic to my /forum directory is redirected (with a javascript window.location.replace) to open inside of the iframe

Essentially phpbb works perfectly in firefox

When I load it in either Chrome or IE:
My site index will load fine (as will any site feature that is not within the iframe)
When I attempt to load my forum or request anything within the iframe IE and Chrome show the page for less than one second then continuously load a 404 page within the frame

This leads me to believe that it is a problem with my redirect...but I have no clue.

Here is the PHP, hopefully somebody can help:

Iframe re-size code (in iframefile.php):

<script type="text/javascript">

/***********************************************
* IFrame SSI script II- &#38;#169; Dynamic Drive DHTML code library (http://www.dynamicdrive.com)
* Visit DynamicDrive.com for hundreds of original DHTML scripts
* This notice must stay intact for legal use
***********************************************/

//Input the IDs of the IFRAMES you wish to dynamically resize to match its content height:
//Separate each ID with a comma. Examples: ["myframe1", "myframe2"] or ["myframe"] or [] for none:
var iframeids=["myframe"]

//Should script hide iframe from browsers that don't support this script (non IE5+/NS6+ browsers. Recommended):
var iframehide="yes"

var getFFVersion=navigator.userAgent.substring(navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Firefox")).split("/")[1]
var FFextraHeight=parseFloat(getFFVersion)>=0.1? 150 : 0 //extra height in px to add to iframe in FireFox 1.0+ browsers

function resizeCaller(){
var dyniframe=new Array()
for (i=0; i<iframeids.length; i++){
if (document.getElementById)
resizeIframe(iframeids[i])
//reveal iframe for lower end browsers? (see var above):
if ((document.all || document.getElementById) && iframehide=="no"){
var tempobj=document.all? document.all[iframeids[i]] : document.getElementById(iframeids[i])
tempobj.style.display="block"
}
}
}

function resizeIframe(frameid){
var currentfr=document.getElementById(frameid)
if (currentfr && !window.opera){
currentfr.style.display="block"
if (currentfr.contentDocument && currentfr.contentDocument.body.offsetHeight) //ns6 syntax
currentfr.height = currentfr.contentDocument.body.offsetHeight+FFextraHeight; 
else if (currentfr.Document && currentfr.Document.body.scrollHeight) //ie5+ syntax
currentfr.height = currentfr.Document.body.scrollHeight;
if (currentfr.addEventListener)
currentfr.addEventListener("load", readjustIframe, false)
else if (currentfr.attachEvent){
currentfr.detachEvent("onload", readjustIframe) // Bug fix line
currentfr.attachEvent("onload", readjustIframe)
}
}
}

function readjustIframe(loadevt) {
var crossevt=(window.event)? event : loadevt
var iframeroot=(crossevt.currentTarget)? crossevt.currentTarget : crossevt.srcElement
if (iframeroot)
resizeIframe(iframeroot.id);
}

function loadintoIframe(iframeid, url){
if (document.getElementById)
document.getElementById(iframeid).src=url
}

if (window.addEventListener)
window.addEventListener("load", resizeCaller, false)
else if (window.attachEvent)
window.attachEvent("onload", resizeCaller)
else
window.onload=resizeCaller

</script>
_________________________________________________ ___

This is (part of) the javascript redirect (in iframefile.php)

<script type="text/javascript">
var text = window.location.href;
function delineate(str) {
theleft = str.indexOf("=") + 1;
theright = str.indexOf("&");
return(str.substring(theleft, str.length));
}
url=delineate(text)

function refreshFrame() {
myframe.location.replace("http://www.mydomain/?var1='+window.location.href+'");
}
</script>

This is the other part of the above javascript redirect that is in the overall_header to redirect pages requested within the forum to target the iframe via the code above:

<script type="text/javascript">
if (window == top) {
var url='window.location.replace("/?var1='+window.location.href+'")';
eval(url);
}
</script>


This is the necessary code i had to add in my home directory index.php for the above two codes to work:

<?
ob_start();
$vary = $_GET['var1'];
$tee = $_GET['t'];
if ( $vary == "" ) {
// do nothing, no var
} else {
$gogogo = strtolower($vary);
$healthy = array("http://mydomain/forum/", "http://www.mydomain/forum/");
$yummy   = array("", "");
$newphrase = str_replace($healthy, $yummy, $gogogo);

$finalcode = base64_encode($newphrase);
$healthy = array("+", "=");
$yummy   = array("7PLUS7", "7EQUALS7");
$newphraseu = str_replace($healthy, $yummy, $finalcode);
if ( $tee == "" ) {
header("Location: http://www.mydomain/iframefile.php?var=$newphraseu");
} else {
header("Location: http://www.mydomain/iframefile.php?var=$newphraseu&t=$tee");
}
}
ob_flush();
?>
___________________________________

And finally this is the code for my actual iframe (in iframefile.php):

<?
$healthy = array("7PLUS7", "7EQUALS7");
$yummy   = array("+", "=");
$newphraseu = str_replace($healthy, $yummy, $vary);

$finally = base64_decode($newphraseu);
if ( $tee == "" ) {
$thedone = $finally;
} else {
$thedone = "$finally&t=$tee";
}
if ( $vary == "" ) {
?>
<center><iframe onload="refreshFrame();" id="myframe" src="/forum" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" vspace="0" hspace="0" style="overflow:invisible; width:100%; display:none"></iframe></center>
<?
} else {
?>
<center><iframe onload="refreshFrame();" id="myframe" src="/forum/<? echo $thedone; ?>" scrolling="no" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" frameborder="0" vspace="0" hspace="0" style="overflow:invisible; width:100%; display:none"></iframe></center>
<?
}
?>


Sorry for the long read.
Again this all works perfect in firefox but with IE and Chrome the iframe keeps reloading a 404 page after showing the requested page briefly.
Any and all help is appreciated!

Thanks in advance

I wirte php... do i use a framework?.. if so what framework do i use?...
When i do phpinfo();  ... i get a screen that says:
This program makes use of the Zend Scripting Language Engine:

so do i use the zend framework?

 regards J

Hi,

I have been doing small scale programming but I am now planning to foray into large scale, intensive web application to handle high traffic, definitely I need something fast, efficient and re-usable. Since I am programming for a while, I have my own collection of code  which  I use for base and generally am able to build fast and secure (small) web application. But now I am looking into framework. So, here is the question..
Should I look into framework like Yii , Kohana etc..
or
Should continue building on my own code ..

I just don't want to learn all those framework if and but then at the decides not to use them as I find them not really helpful !!!

Hi,

I'm trying to write my own php mvc framework, but I don't know where to start. I have been using codeigniter for a while, then i thought i shouldn't use it, because I'm not getting smarter when most of the code is written for me. So, writting my own framework would be a great practice to learn oop, i guess. I need: url routing, the would work like codeigniter's (http://website.com/controller/method/some/other/params) and calling some function for rendering layout files similar to codeigniter's ($this -> load -> view ( 'file.php' ); and not like this: $header = new Template ( 'header.php' ); then some coding with header, and same with content.php and footer.php). Can anyone please help me? Where to start? sorry for bad English

Hello guys, okay? 

Lol! Ok let's see...

index.php

<?php
/*
index.php
this file will be under /var/www/site/public_html or some other public dir
*/

//this will look into ../application
//you can do something like /var/www/site/application if you want
define("APP_PATH", __DIR__ . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . ".." . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . "application" . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR);
define("LIB_PATH", APP_PATH . "lib" . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR);

//This is because we don't want direct access to files, we'll be checking in every private file
//if this is defined
define("O_FRAMEWORK", "Bla bla bla");

//Had to make theese variable because i had some problems with the require_once when using constants + strings, i'll fix this soon
$config_path = APP_PATH . "config.php";
$router_path = LIB_PATH . "Router.php";
$front_path  = LIB_PATH . "Front.php";

require_once($config_path);
require_once($front_path);
require_once($router_path);

if(isset($autoload)){
if(!autoload($autoload)){
echo "zzz";
exit(); //Errors when trying to open files...
}
}

$router = new Router();

if($router->isRouteValid() == false){
echo "404";
exit(); //Didn't find route
}

$front = new Front();
$front->servePage($router->getRoutePath());

//This part of code should probably be optimized...
function autoload($autoload)
{
for($i = 0; $i < sizeof($autoload); $i++){
if(!file_exists(APP_PATH . $autoload[$i] . ".php"))
return false;
require_once($autoload[$i] . ".php");
}
return true;
}
?>


Front.php

<?php
/*
Front.php

Ok hm... this is very uncomplete :/
*/

if(!defined("O_FRAMEWORK")){ echo "Direct file access forbidden"; exit();}

define("CONTROLLER_PATH", APP_PATH . "controllers" . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR);

class Front
{
public function __construct(){}
public function servePage($routePath)
{
if(strpos("/", $routePath)){
//Will do this later :P
}
else {
$controller_name = $routePath;
$method = "index";
}

require_once(CONTROLLER_PATH . $controller_name . ".php");
$controller = new $controller_name();
$controller->$method();
}

}
?>


Router.php

<?php
/*
Router.php
*/

if(!defined("O_FRAMEWORK")){ echo "Direct file access forbidden"; exit();}

class Router
{
private $_route;
private $_available_routes = array (
"Homepage" => "/",
);
private $_route_path;


public function __construct()
{
                $this->_route = $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
}

public function getRoute()
{
return $this->_route;
}

public function getRoutePath()
{
return $this->_route_path;
}

public function isRouteValid()
{
foreach($this->_available_routes as $route){
if($this->_route == $route){
$this->_route_path = array_keys($this->_available_routes, $route, true);
$this->_route_path = $this->_route_path[0];
return true;
}
}
return false;
}
}

?>


config.php

<?php
//This is empty atm
?>


Homepage.php (this is the home controller)

<?php
if(!defined("O_FRAMEWORK")){ echo "Direct file access forbidden"; exit();}

class Homepage
{
public function __construct(){}

public function index()
{
echo "Homepage";
}
}

?>


This is what i got, it's all messed up but i'll fix it soon 

hey guys im after a bit of advise on routing within my framework please.   now i've created a route:     account/verify/email-address/:email_address/activation-key/:activation_key   which will be then interpurated into     account/verify/email-address/destramic-at-hotmail-dot-com/activation-key/12345   now my question is having a email address in a url is good idea?   if so i can decode the :email_addres parameter in the route like so:

$router->add_route('account/verify/email-address/:email_address/activation-key/:activation_key', 
array('controller' => 'users', 
         'action'     => 'activate_account',
         'decode'   => 'email_addres' => 'string_to_email')
));

would like your thoughts on this please guys (go easy)...if not a user_id would be sufficient i suppose   thanks    

hey guys im having a bit of trouble getting $_GET in my framework. now the ony way to get query from a url such as:     users/activate-account?email_address=test&token=test    i have to use $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] unless im doing something wrong?     [REQUEST_URI] => /bisi/user/activate-account?email_address=test&token=test   by doing this:

print_r($_GET);

all i get is :     Array ( [uri] => user/activate-account )   just concerned im doing something wrong?...any advise on this please guys.   was thinking of doing something like this in my request

public function get_query($name = null)
	{
		$uri = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
	
		if (parse_url($uri, PHP_URL_QUERY))
		{
			$query = explode("?", $uri);
			$query = explode("&", $query[1]);
					
			$array = array();
				
			foreach ($query as $string)
			{
				$string = explode("=", $string);
				$query_name   = $string[0];
				$query_value  = $string[1];			
				$array[$query_name] = $query_value;
// $_GET[$query_name] = $query_value; possibly?
			}
				
			if ($name !== null &&
		        array_key_exists($name, $array))
			{
				return $array[$name];
			}
			
			return $array;
		}
		
		return null;
	}

thanks    

I know this question sounds a bit vague. I have not been working with php too long, maybe 6 months or so. I have worked with other programming languages and do have a good grasp of OOP. I have a few ideas for some apps I want to make, nothing that will be the next commercial hit. I just to do some php apps to get better at php. Everywhere I look some one is talking about a framework, and it looks like Codeigniter seems to be everyones fave, despite the fact that there is a good chance it will die out soon. I ended up giving Codeigniter a try and although I understand MVC, and I get OOP, and all of that, it seems there are many ways to set things up and a lot of the tutorials I tried out had different ways to do things withing Codeigniter, the problem with that is some of the stuff I learned on tutorials I could not get to work on my set up. I got frustrated and simply gave up after a while of tinkering with CI. I know there are plenty other frameworks, but I am wondering if I will truly be at a disadvantage if I just write core php with out using a framework.   Thanks if advance for the input.

Hi,
I am going to start a project which would be like a single page site, sending requests from one page and displaying result on same page. I would like to know which framework would be better.

here i see top 10 frameworks
http://www.phpframeworks.com/top-10-php-frameworks/

any suggestion please?
Thanks

Okay, this is a head scratcher for me...

About 10-15 years ago, there was this framework that seemed to be pretty popular in the LAMP work for quickly building websites.  (I think it was written in PHP.)

The thing I recall about it was that it you could create your own markup tags to markup up fields using curly brackets { }.

I wish I could be more specific but this is all that is coming to mind.

Any clues of what I might be thinking about?

<?php

class Action
{
	protected $_request;
	protected $_response;
	protected $_model;
	protected $_view;
		
	public function __construct(Request $request, Response $response)
	{
		$this->set_request($request)->set_response($response)->set_view($request, $response)->set_model();
		
		// if request requires partial then do this
		$partial = Partial::singleton();
		$view    = $this->get_view();
		
		$view->set_partial($partial);
		$partial->set_view(clone $view);
	}

	protected function set_request(Request $request)
	{
		$this->_request = $request;
		return $this;
	}
	
	protected function set_response(Response $response)
	{
		$this->_response = $response;
		return $this;
	}
	
	protected function set_view(Request $request, Response $response)
	{
		$this->_view = new View($request, $response);
		return $this;
	}

	public function get_request()
	{
		return $this->_request;
	}
	
	public function get_response()
	{
		return $this->_response;
	}
	
	public function get_view()
	{
		return $this->_view;
	}
	
	public function dispatch($method, $parameters)
	{
		if ($this->get_request()->is_dispatched())
		{
			if(method_exists($this, $method))
			{
				call_user_func_array(array($this, $method), $parameters);
			}
			else
			{
				echo "unable to load method";
			}
		}
	}
	
	public function __get($property)
	{
		$property = '_' . $property;

		if (property_exists($this, $property) &&
		    $property !== '$this->_request' &&
		    $property !== '$this->_responce')
		{	
			return 	$this->$property;
		}
		
		return false;
	}
	
	public function set_model()
	{		
		$class_name       = get_class($this);
		$model_name       = trim($class_name, "_Controller");
		$model_name       = strtolower($model_name);
		$property_name    = '_' . $model_name;
		$model_name       = Inflection::singularize($model_name);
		$model_name       = ucfirst($model_name);
		$model_class      = $model_name . '_Model';
		
		$this->{$property_name} = new $model_class();
	}
}

<?php

class View
{
	protected $_variables = array();
	protected $_helpers   = array();
	
	public function __construct(Request $request, Response $response)
	{
	}
		
	public function __set($name, $value)
	{
		$this->_variables[$name] = $value;
	}
	
	public function __get($name)
	{
		return $this->_variables[$name];
	}
	
	public function __call($name, $parameters)
	{	
		$helper = $this->get_helper($name);
		
		if (!$helper)
		{
			$helper = call_user_func_array(array(new $name(), '__construct'), $parameters); 
			$this->set_helper($name, $helper);
		}
	
		return $helper;
	}

	protected function set_helper($helper, $instance)
	{
		$this->_helpers[$helper] = $instance;
	}
	
	protected function get_helper($helper)
	{
		if (isset($this->_helpers[$helper]))
		{
			return $this->_helpers[$helper];
		}
		
		return false;
	}
		
	public function set_partial(Partial $partial)
	{
		if ($partial instanceof Partial)
		{
			$this->set_helper('partial', $partial);
		}
	}
	
	public function render($file)
	{
		if (preg_match("/\.html$/i", $file))
		{			
			require_once PRIVATE_DIRECTORY . 'application' . DS . 'views' . DS . $file;
		}
	}
}

<?php

class Partial
{
	protected $_view;
	protected $_templates;

	protected static $_instance = null;
	
	public static function singleton()
	{
		if (self::$_instance == null)
		{
			self::$_instance = new self();
		}
	
		return self::$_instance;
	}
	
	public function set_view(View $view)
	{
		$this->_view = $view;
	}
	
	public function __set($name, $options = array())
	{
		$this->_templates[$name]; 
		$this->_templates[$name]['path']      = $options[0];
		$this->_templates[$name]['variables'] = $options[1];
	}
	
	public function __get($name)
	{
		// when $this->paertial()->header; is called in view template 
		// it extracts variables and includes template view render() method
		
		$file      = $this->_templates[$name]['path'];
		$variables = $this->_templates[$name]['variables'];
	}
}

Hey guys im trying to make alternations to my personal framework by adding a Partial class as a helper to the View class so that I'm able to add partial templates in my bootstrap and load accordingly in my view template like a header and footer.   what im after is a bit of advise on the functioning of my Action/View and Partial please (not sure if what im doing is really right although it does work)   Basically my Controller will extend my action where a model and view is made for my controller to use.  Then my partial class is sent as a helper to my view and a clone of view sent to my partial so that im able to use the view class in my partial to render my header and variables. (is this the correct way? or a good method?)   here's my code...like I said any advise would be greatly appreciated... thank you        

Hi guys I am a php programmer and  in a big confusion. I want to learn a framework, but can't figure out which one start ?   CakePHP Codelgniter Symfony laravel   I am new to them, so you can suggest me which one to start 1st and move on to other. Or If i miss any other framework , you can tell me that also.   Any help is appriciable. Thanks