How do I separate arguments with slashes?

[gdtrfb]

How do I make an app that let's me pass argments as slash-delimited. Something like this

http://foo.com/somedir/myapp/arg1/arg2/arg3

or another one

http://foo.com/samepath/myapp/name1/val1/name2/val2/namen/valn

instead of

http://foo.com/somepath/myapp.php?name1=val1&name2=val2

At the PHP|Works conference last year in Toronto there was a quick remark in one of the sessions about how to do it. I scribbled a note which was barely legible at the time and is completely unintelligible now.

Anyone?

Thanks,
--Mark

[PHPCamp.com]

By argments (arguments?) do you mean using GET, POST, or command line?

[REMIYA]

This code will replace all ?, & and = characters with slashes:

$initialURL="http://foo.com/somepath/myapp.php?name1=val1&name2=val2";
$resultURL=implode("/",explode("&",implode("/",explode("=",implode("/",explode("?",$initial))))));
// returns http://foo.com/somepath/myapp.php/name1/val1/name2/val2 

Hope that helps.

[dabear]

Hi, take a look at mod_rewrite, or if that's not available:

class adressline//emulate $_GET behaviour without using  mod_rewrite
{
var $get, $backup;

    function __construct($stringFrom = false, $stringDelimiter = false)
    {
    
        if(!$stringFrom){$stringFrom = $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'];}
        if(!$stringDelimiter){$stringDelimiter = '/';}
    
    
        //pathinfo, removes slashes at beg. and end + ".."  
        $pInfo   = str_replace('..', '', trim($_SERVER['PATH_INFO'], $stringDelimiter));
        $varData = explode($stringDelimiter, $pInfo);
  
        $this->get = $varData;
    }
    function adressline($stringFrom = false, $stringDelimiter = false){$this->__construct($stringFrom, $stringDelimiter);}   
        


        function asArray($data = false, $explodeString = false)
        {
            if(!$data){$data = $this->get;}
            if(!$explodeString){$explodeString = '|';}
        
            foreach($data as $key => $value)
            {
                if(is_array($value))
                {
                    //loop through this funtion again
                    $this->asArray($value);
            
                }
                else
                {
                    
                    //explode on each- and add to array
                    $exploded = explode($explodeString , $value);
                    $useAsKey = array_shift($exploded);
                    /* firs value in exploded is taken out and used as key,
                    assign the rest as values to the key
                    
                    if the array contains only one new value, make $exploded a string instead
                    */
                    
                  /*  if(count($exploded) <= 1)
                    {
                        $newArray[$useAsKey] =$exploded[0];
                    
                    }
                    else
                    {*/
                        $newArray[$useAsKey] =$exploded;
                    //}
                    
            
                }
                
            }
            return $newArray;
        
        }
        
        function emulatedGet(/* void */)
        {
        
            return($this->asArray());
            
        }

        function overWriteGet()
        {
            $this->backup = $this->emulatedGet();
            $_GET = array();
            $_GET = $this->backup;
        }
        
}       
        $varData = new adressline();
        $varData->overWriteGet();
        //print_r($_GET); 

[REMIYA]

Does this class actually work? Has it been tested?

[dabear]

Does this class actually work? Has it been tested?

I wrote it, so I know it will work.. with one exception though.

These will work: http://foo.tld/index.php/values
This will not: http://foo.tld/values

[REMIYA]

Would you mind a simple explanation of the implementation of the above code?

How the instantiation of the class should be done, and how it can be used?

[dabear]

Would you mind a simple explanation of the implementation of the above code?

How the instantiation of the class should be done, and how it can be used?

Hmm, sure. Basically, I make use of that $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] will be different for how the php script is called. Then I strip out illiegal characters and assign keys and values based on the remaining string.

I always want the keys to be in an array (even if there are no keys, i still want the array), thats why I have commented out some code in there.

Download the script to webfolder/oop/adressline.php
remove // in front of print_r ..
and access it like so:
http://localhost/oop/adressline.php/php or so:
http://localhost/oop/adressline.php/php|hello/ss|ss

Basically, "/" is a key separator, and '|' is a value separator

[digitman]

just use mod_rewrite dude

[REMIYA]

just use mod_rewrite dude

mod_rewrite is not always working

[Ruben K.]

If you are on apache with mod_rewrite installed, I would recommend using it.
I personally prefer mod_rewrite over PHP methods.