Re: [Phrame-devel] Extending ActionController

[Alex <ale...@ya...>]

Hi Joss,
 
Phrame 2.0 implemented the views with http-redirects/forwards.
With 2.1 I've tried to change this behaviour to use java-like request-dispatchers, 
which don't do http-redirects anymore. (atleast, not by default)
For backwards compatibility though, I've retained the redirect behaviour with 2.1 as
default. This is however only with the default controller! 
 
I've released a few add-ons that might help you here. 
Check this url for packages and examples:
http://www.geocities.com/alex_has_email/phrame-2_1_pre/
 
Most of interest to you will be the dispatching controller, I've added a demonstration
requestdispatcher implementation for a thing I called tphp, which basically does a php
include. I've added request/session state, but that's it.
 
Just look at the example package and you'll see the difference.
 
If you want to do it yourself, you should be able to subclass the controller and
reimplement the _processForward. The original method is quite simple, so just look at
the original code to see how it works. You should have your idea running quite quickly 
I imagine. I'd look at the posted url first though.
 
I hope this answers the questions you have.
 
Kind regards,
 
Alex


jos...@ta... wrote:

Firstly my apologies for posting to the developers list but it seems have a little more activity than the users list and I'd rather not email this question to some of the learned individuals on this list without their permission first.

I develop mainly in Struts and especially Tiles and have just started using PHP. I have hunted around for a PHP alternative to Struts and I think I have settled on Phrame for it's simplicity and stability.

However rather than using Smarty or XSLT I would like to contain my webapp in a single index.php page with includes rather than forwards, similar in design to the tutorial on Zend 'How Not To Use A Template System' (http://www.zend.com/zend/tut/tutorial-Darrell.php). The problem I have to create the controller in the index.php which then forwards to the index.php, creating a recursive loop. So I suggest extending the ApplicationController with MyController and override the _processForward() function with one that performs an include rather than a forward.

This seems to me the simplest approach but would it give me what is required. For example will I be able to access session variables correctly?

Any comments would be most welcome.

Regards,

Joss Wright





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