Re: [Pagekit-devel] virtual pages

[Boris Z. <bo...@am...>]

Hello Ben,

Am Montag, 30. September 2002 15:39 schrieb Ben Ausden:
> Hi,
>
> can anyone think of a way of handling 'virtual' URLs, e.g.
>
> /index   ->  maps to /index.tmpl (as normal)
> /something   ->  maps to /another/place/something.tmpl
> /else   ->  maps to /go/here.tmpl
>
>
> I originally wrote a pkit_default sub to handle this, then realized PageKit
> won't even run it, because something.tmpl doesn't exist. The reason I need
> is it because I need to be able to create simple URLs which map to complex
> URLs (stored in the database), so they can be displayed in advertisements,
> hoardings, bus shelters etc etc. I'd rather not have to create dummy
> templates to handle each URL.
>
> any ideas that don't involve hacking PageKit.pm ??!!
>
> ;-)

maybe pkit_fixup_uri is enough for this.

in Common.pm
sub pkit_fixup_uri {
  my $model = shift;
  my $uri = shift;
  my %map = ( '/something'=>'/another/place/something','/else'=>'/go/here');
  $map{$uri} || $uri;
}

-- 
Boris