> This might not be the best place to ask this question, but
> I�m sure that Leon or JJ have an answer for it.
> How come there are no subdirectories below action and screens?
> Like, why not have a directory action/admin? Is there
> something insecure about it?
> How do search engines index pages with a �/� in them?
This is a good question.
When building a site with FreeEnergy (the basic framework of screens,
actions, etc), we have often put subdirectories in the screens
directory. Instead of passing them like "SCREEN=about/about_us", though,
we add an element to the ScreenInfo array that tells the system which
section the screen is in. That means you still have to have unique
screen names, but the URL can have "SCREEN=about_us". I didn't make
subdirectories in FreeTrade because there really aren't that many screens.
But if you add a bunch of content to a FreeTrade site, you probably should
use subdirectories.
As far as actions go, there's no ActionInfo array, so you would have to
pass things as "ACTION=admin/ADD_ITEM". This will work. There's something
about it that doesn't seem right to me, but I can't offer any reason not
to do it. I feel there aren't enough actions to justify doing it.
There is a check being made in index.php3 for actions that contain anything
other than letters, numbers and underscores. That's to prevent actions
like "ACTION=../../../../../etc/passwd". If you start allowing slashes in
your actions, you'll have to be more sophisticated with your filtering of
bad action values.
As far as putting slashes in an URL, I don't think there are issues with
browsers having slashes in the query string. It might confuse some
spiders, but spiders rarely follow links with query strings anyway.
Leon
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