| Re: Using a single php entry file for a whole site. [message #181856 is a reply to message #181854] |
Thu, 20 June 2013 17:48   |
Jerry Stuckle
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On 6/20/2013 1:22 PM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
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> What I would like to do, is the following.
>
> ALL request to a site are redirected by apache rules to one single file.
> Let's call it index.php.
> Index.php notes the URL the user wants and looks it up in a database,
> and if it exists, includes() the actual PHP file for that page.
> If it doesn't exist, a standard 'sorry, you are looking for a page that
> doesn't exist' is returned, if possible with the correct error code in
> the headers?
> The php files themselves apart from index.php do NOT live under the web
> root. They might in fact live in the database. But that's stage 2.
>
> Is this possible, and if so what if any are the downsides?
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Sure, it's possible. Many CMS's do it. The advantage is you don't have
to upload files. Disadvantage is higher complexity of the code and more
processing required for each page. Additionally, maintenance and
troubleshooting will be much harder, and unless you are *VERY CAREFUL*
you can be adding security risks. CMS's go to great lengths to avoid
the security problems, but the troubleshooting and maintenance is still
a problem.
> It seems to me that a user or robot level scrape of the site would not
> show anything of its true internal structure. But still show all the
> paths through it.
>
Internal structure is immaterial to the external world. All they do is
request a URI and get a response.
> What I want to do is have stuff like
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> http:/mysite.com/news/Dog-Bites-Man
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> redirect to say
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> /var/private/newspage.php?id=3041
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> where there exists a mysql table with a name value pair of
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> news/Dog-Bites-Man: /var/private/newspage.php?id=3041
> or
> menu/Contact-the-webmaster: /var/private/contact.php?target=webmaster
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> and so on.
>
> And possible a field for keywords to search the site with.
>
The question begs - why? Unless you're trying to build your own CMS
(but there are a lot of good free ones out there), I see no good reason
for it.
But then I also consider the source of the question...
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