Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] Link simplification proposal

[Eloi G. <el...@re...>]

Hey all!

I just got back off the campaign trail, so it'll take me a little while 
to get back up to speed...

Unless I'm missing some background that happened over IRC, it looks like 
we're trying to re-invent the wheel here.  All these ideas  I've seen in 
the past few days were already discussed and analyzed almost 2 years ago 
in these same discussion lists when I was developing the mod_rewrite 
hack.  These same theories and various versions of testcode were in turn 
based on ideas gleaned from discussions on the boards of various 
php-nuke variants going back years before that.

The following quotes are from different messages in this thread.  Sorry 
if it's kind'a confusing.

 >> The site claims: "Because doing mod_rewrite on sites with a lot of 
pages takes up a large amount of resources.<<

That's if you're assigning a different name for each page.  We don't 
have to worry about that with phpws.


 >> The moduleLink and secureLink functions can have a switch to deliver 
the links in this format or not automatically.<<

The Hack contains a switch in Core.php.  Just set "MOD_REWRITE_ENABLED" 
on line 11.


 >>Even "pagemaster" is a bit of an odd name. I"d like to see 
http://www.site.com/page4 <<

How about http://www.site.com/page4.html <http://www.site.com/page4> ?  
That's the URL that the Hack currently recognizes.  The "html" extension 
used in the created links is there to make sure that *every* SE is 
fooled into thinking that this is a static site.


 >> That"s where to put it although not everybody uses moduleLink. Just 
a matter of getting people to change.<<

Once mod_rewrite becomes part of the core, they'll change.


 >> One other thing that might be nice is some virtual links.<<

mhnoyes has been asking for this for a while.  It's the basic idea that 
Wikis work off of.  I've explored doing it with Article Manager, but it 
really should be done as a core class.  .


 >> I"d perhaps suggest that if we"re to create a function to create the 
short urls, if someone wants to do it differently, they could replace 
the function themselves anyway. <<

Again, it's already been done.  The only changes that we'll want to make 
for 0.94 is to change the delimiter to "/". 
If you look back at the old discussions, you'll see that the only reason 
the mod_rewrite hack uses "~" as a delimiter instead of "/" is because 
the pre-0.94 templating code looks for all its files relatively, and 
therefore breaks.


-Eloi George-