| Greetings everyone, opinions please on this app - can CodeIgniter do this? |
[eluser]Unknown[/eluser]
Greetings all… I have a quick question regarding using CodeIgniter in a specific non-conventional way. I was hoping to get some opinions or suggestions on whether this is doable. First let me say that I am NOT a developer – especially in the OOP/MVC sense. I have a few years of light PHP scripting experience and am looking to go down the road of MVC frameworks – and CodeIgniter looks awesome! Anyways – I wanted to build a simple app, where a user can upload an entire pre-written html page (from <html> to </html>  into a form, stored in MySQL, and then be able view that page via a url such as:http://www.domain.com/username/ So basically, create an app using standard MVC CodeIgniter coding principles: Create a user: http://www.domain.com/register/ Which in turn, will create their homepage: http://www.domain.com/username/ Also, create their admin page (password resets, etc…) http://www.domain.com/username/admin/ http://www.domain.com/username/admin/reset_password http://www.domain.com/username/admin/change_address http://www.domain.com/username/admin/add_content When the user added the above mentioned html content to the “add_content” form – it would be called from the database as and be seen via the URL: http://www.domain.com/username/ Obviously, per additional instructions, we could have a form to upload pictures & css - or they could do it manually - to such and such directory (perhaps views/images) – and make sure their code reference /siteroot/views/images for graphics and .css. The caveat would be how to store and escape/sanitize the code in the database – and render it properly (certain tags to be interpreted, and others as straight text). For example – any php code in their uploaded page would be rendered as straight text. So, that’s about it... Opinions/suggestions please :-) Thanks in advance... - Scott
[eluser]richthegeek[/eluser]
in order to create the domain listing you want, you will need to set up specific routes for every page. To set up a route, you need to edit app/config/routes.php where you will see some lines, which are all PHP array elements. To add a new route, do: Code: $route[ 'SOURCE' ] = 'TARGET';So for your register one, you might do (assuming you use a controller named "users") Code: $route[ 'register' ] = 'users/register';And then to catch the usernames, add: Code: $route[ '([a-zA-Z0-9]+)' ] = 'users/home/$1';A couple of important things is that the second route I mentioned (the one using regular expressions) will catch *any* URL you throw at it other than http://www.domain.com/ so you need to put any other routes before it. You might want to make it easier by making and non-username pages go to a redirect controller, by using something like: Code: $route[ 'page/(.+)' ] = 'page/$1';It could get somewhat complicated at times so it would really be easier to use a controller as the first URL parameter rather than the username. If you need some help, MSN me, my @hotmail.com is the same as my username.
[eluser]Unknown[/eluser]
Greetings php_penguin, Thanks for the reply and the info… I totally forgot that the first segment of the uri is the controller – yes, I will have to find another way – or take you suggestions – which I really appreciate. What about the putting html code into a database field? Is that doable? I am actually about to post this - job or a portion of it (probably the registration piece) on Rent-A-Coder.com – but I have to iron out the architectural stuff… Either way thanks again… Cheers…. |
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