I have been experimenting with the lightweight NiceDog PHP routing framework, which routes like this:
R('entries/(?<id>\d+)')
->controller('Entries_Controller')
->action('show')
->on('GET')
Now the .htaccess file is set up to do this redirect like so:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?url=$1 [QSA,L]
My problem is when I want to make a URL to somewhere, it seems impossible to do so.
Say I’ve requested the page entries/5, and on that page I would like to link to another entry entries/6:
<a href="entries/6">Next Entry</a>
This resolves to the address http://localhost/folder/to/project/entries/5/entries/6
Not what I want.
The href /entries/6 would link to http://localhost/entries/6
Also not what I want.
To work around this, I created a function to handle this problem:
function url($route) {
return "http://localhost/folder/to/project/$route";
}
So I can now write
<a href="<?= url('entries/6') ?>">Next Entry</a>
which now links to http://localhost/folder/to/project/entries/6, which is exactly what I want.
However, I have to do this for EVERY in-site link, and it seems like there could be a better solution that doesn’t involve an externally created URL.
Is there a “better” way to fix this problem? Is this a “common” problem with PHP frameworks? (It seems it would be)
The easy alternative would be to use <base href=”http://example.org/your/project/index” /> in your page templates <head>. But that’s basically like having full URLs generated. And yes, it’s also valid for XHTML and still in HTML5.