I had the same issue a while back. cc me on a good response willya? On 8/5/07, Elliotte Harold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm considering a simple site that I may design in PHP. PHP is probably > the simplest solution except for one thing: it carries a very strong > coupling between pages and scripts. As far as I've ever been able to > tell PHP really, really, really wants there to be a single primary .php > file for each URL that does not contain a query string (though that file > may of course invoke others). > > For the system I'm designing that simply won't work. In Java servlet > environments it's relatively trivial to map one servlet to an entire > directory structure, so that it handles all requests for all pages > within that hierarchy. > > Is there any *reasonable* way to do this in PHP? The only way I've ever > seen is what WordPress does: use mod_rewrite to redirect all requests > within the hierarchy to a custom dispatcher script that converts actual > hierarchy components into query string variables. I am impressed by this > hack, but it's way too kludgy for me to be comfortable with. For one > thing, I don't want to depend on mod_rewrite if I don't have to. > > Surely by now there's a better way? How do I overcome the one file per > URL assumption that PHP makes? > -- Robert Q Kim, Wireless Internet Provider http://evdo-coverage.com/satellite-wireless-internet.html http://groups.google.com/group/unpaid-overtime 2611 S. Pacific Coast Highway 101 Suite 203 Unpaid Overtime Law Breaks San Diego, CA 92007 206 984 0880 _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
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