I'm working on a web page project. I decided to use Apache, PHP (5.1.7, version imposed by my service provider) and Dwoo (templating) for this purpose.
I want to route URLs to my templates. I'm aware there are many frameworks doing this kind of thing. I'm just wondering if there's a nice way to achieve it without.
I've set up my project as follows:
- src/dwoo - Dwoo files
- index.php - This should handle routing. Currently it just renders the front page of the site using a template.
- templates - Templates that represent actual pages.
There is minimal amount of business logic (no real model). It's all just pretty static pages. Using templates makes maintenance work easier (inheritance ie.).
Any idea how to set up routing in this case? I guess ideally each given URL should route via index.php that then somehow decides which template to render (ie. /category/pagename would map to templates/category/pagename.tpl).
You might want to use PEAR's Net_URL_Mapper.
Like trolskn (+1) describes:
But I found the following
.htaccess
(placed in the folder with theindex.php
which should "consume" everything after it) much more helpful:Also I would like to note that you might encounter the message
This can easily be solved with
sudo a2enmod rewrite && sudo service apache2 restart
(source)Use
mod_rewrite
to route everything to a singleindex.php
file. Then check the variable in$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']
within this file to dispatch to the required handler.This configuration will enable
mod_rewrite
, if it's installed: