Re: [Semanticscuttle-devel] Is there a future for using a framework?

[Mark P. <mpe...@gm...>]

I don't claim to be an authority on this, but here's what I'm seeing on my
Godaddy account.  What I did was create a subdomain off my main account.
 And in that subdomain directory I copied the contents of Semantic Scuttle.
 Renamed the www folder to demo.  Created database and launched.  I was able
to launch the app and register an account, but as soon as I logged in, I got
the error "User with username demo was not found" so I did some
troubleshooting and found that the PATH_INFO was returning
"/demo/profile.php/markmark (where markmark is my username).  Looking into
the code it is essentially looking for PATH_INFO to return
"profile.php/markmark".  I was able to make it work by altering the line
that parses the PATH_INFO but it was a hack to see if I could get it to
work.

I also performed an install on my home machine and created an alias /sc to
the www folder and this works fine.  I haven't attempted to alter my home
machine to try and mimic my godaddy instance, but will probably do so this
weekend.

Now with that said, do I understand exactly what is causing it?  Not
completely.  However, since there have been others who've had similar
problems, I think we may benefit looking at altering the way we pull the URL
information.  I wouldn't call it simple, but it makes sense using a router
class where all activity were to be routed through index.php.  And obviously
the next logical question is do we go one step further and adopt a framework
and take advantage of some of the additional features of the typical
framework?

I know I probably didn't answer your question Chris, but I'd love to hear
your experiences.

Thanks,
Mark Pemberton


On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 11:05 PM, ch...@ch...
<ch...@ch...>wrote:

> Can someone provide a high level reason why clean URLs are so problematic
> with Scuttle? I've never encountered the like with any other software!
>
> c
>
> On Feb 18, 2011, at 6:20 PM, Mark Pemberton <mpe...@gm...> wrote:
>
> > On my sleepless nights, I've been reviewing some of the various PHP
> frameworks.  I've played with Zend, CodeIgniter, a little CakePHP, and some
> others who have less of a following.  Wanted to see if this was something
> that might be entertained in the future or is it simply too much overhead?
>  What brought it on was looking at options to resolve some of the URL
> issues.  I was looking at creating a simple routing class that allowed
> everything to flow through index.php, but kept getting drawn toward the use
> of a framework to do the routing.  There are a number of benefits, but does
> also include some drawbacks.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> >
>