> On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 6:11 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Here is my problem though: I don't want to impact my users' sites, >> meaning I want to keep their URLs intact and continue to use the same >> underlying database containing sites and pages (where a record in the >> "page" table has a URI, a parent id/URI, page content, an optional
I've been mulling over building a CMS using the URL structure you're describing. Here's some of my thoughts on the matter: 1) You have two issues. One is trying to locate a resource based on the URL, and the other is trying to create links to resources. 2) trying to locate a resource depends on what your data model is like. You essentially need a central repository that acts as your site map which consists of parent_ids and stubs/slugs for that resource. Assuming resource stubs/slugs are unique, it'd be a simple matter of retrieving from the database based on the last part of the URL. If they're not unique then you need to check each part of the URL and match it against a node in the tree. A little more "expensive". You could denormalize your database to solve this problem by storing full path names in an additional field and update it if an article is ever moved or renamed. 3) if you're using the denormalized approach, outputting URLs is simple enough. otherwise, you'll have to navigate the tree for each node every time you want to output a link. 4) in Cake, in order to be able to take the URL and map it out. You could try URL rewriting and take /part/part/part/ and convert it into /part-part-part/ (or some other delimiter that's Cake-friendly). Otherwise, you'll probably have to hack up the dispatcher to do what you want. Best of luck, -Jonathan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
