Controllers Routing

[TCB13]

Hello,

I was trying to setup a controller like explained here: https://github.com/mrjgreen/phroute#controllers

But it doesn't work properly. It always ends up on the anyIndex() method and ignores the for example postTest() if I set my method to POST. If I remove the anyIndex() method it doesn't work.

Is this poorly implemented or I'm using it the wrong way?

[mrjgreen]

Not sure. I'll have a quick look and see if I can replicate. In the meantime if you want to post your code as a comment here I can take a look and see if I can work out where its going wrong.

[TCB13]

@mrjgreen I found out that if the method is named post() instead of postTest() it works fine. I'm running on dev-master was this changed recently?

[TCB13]

I also found another small issue regarding the controllers... If I try to do something like this:

$router->group(["prefix" => "/test/{id:i}"], function($router) use($ns) {
    $router->controller("/", "$ns\\Test");
    $router->controller("/page", "$ns\\Page");
});

And then declare on the Page and Test controllers the id:

class Page {

    public function get($id)
    {
        return 'PAGE - GET method ' . $id;
    }

}

I'll get Phroute\\Phroute\\Exception\\BadRouteException: Cannot use the same placeholder 'id' twice.

However, if I do it manually, it will work...

$router->group(["prefix" => "/test/{id:i}"], function($router) use($ns) {
    $router->get("/", ["$ns\\Test", "get"]);
    $router->get("/page", ["$ns\\Page", "get"]);
});

Why? Thanks.

[mrjgreen]

I think you may have the implementation wrong... Please post your code and I'll point you in the right direction. Is there are reason for you running on dev-master? Always best to go for a stable release if possible.

[mrjgreen]

The first part of the controller method is the http method verb. So getTest will resolve to a route /test sent with a method GET.

The behaviour of a public controller method named just get is currently undefined. I will add this to the tests and throw an appropriate exception.

Please post your entire route set up so I can try to figure out what you are doing. You will also need to show me both your Test and Page controllers - its no good just putting one of them up there :)

[TCB13]

@mrjgreen Regarding the first issue:

I had it implemented like this:

$router->controller('/page/', "$ns\\Page");

And then my Page Controller was:

class Page {

    public function anyIndex() {
        return "PAGE - any index";
    }

    public function getPage()
    {
        return 'PAGE - GET method';
    }

}

And it just gave me PAGE - any index. However if I rename getPage() into get() it works without any issues.

Looks like the docs aren't updated. It's seems better just to write get() instead of getPage() it's smaller and less redundant.

[mrjgreen]

No you cannot write just get()! I'm afraid you have misunderstood how the controller works. The docs are complete and comprehensive. Could you also post your dispatch command. I think thats the crux of this.

NB. The any in anyIndex refers to the method I.E. this route will respond to any http method: get,post,put etc...

A correct working implementation below:

$router->controller('/page', "$ns\\Page");

class Page {

    public function anyIndex() {
        return "PAGE - ANY index";
    }

    public function getPage(){
        return 'PAGE - GET method';
    }
}

#Dispatch

$dispatcher = (new Dispatcher($router->getData()));

$dispatcher->dispatch('GET', '/page'); //PAGE - ANY index
$dispatcher->dispatch('PUT', '/page'); //PAGE - ANY index
$dispatcher->dispatch('POST', '/page'); //PAGE - ANY index

$dispatcher->dispatch('GET', '/page/page'); //PAGE - GET method

[mrjgreen]

I may be wrong, but it seems that what you may be trying to do is really:

#Note the controller is assigned to '/'
#this is the base which will prepend the routes within the controller
$router->controller('/', "$ns\\Page");

class Page {

    public function anyIndex() {
        return "PAGE - ANY index";
    }

    public function getPage(){
        return 'PAGE - GET method';
    }
}

#Dispatch

$dispatcher = (new Dispatcher($router->getData()));

$dispatcher->dispatch('GET', '/'); //PAGE - ANY index
$dispatcher->dispatch('PUT', '/'); //PAGE - ANY index
$dispatcher->dispatch('POST', '/'); //PAGE - ANY index

$dispatcher->dispatch('GET', '/page'); //PAGE - GET method

[TCB13]

My dispatcher is:

$dispatcher = new \Phroute\Phroute\Dispatcher($this->router->getData());
$response = $dispatcher->dispatch($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'], parse_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], PHP_URL_PATH));

[TCB13]

Why do you say Note the controller is assigned to '/'?

Can't I just have a controller for each route I might want? In a way that:

• /test/ => Loads \Controllers\Test.php and uses default methods like get() post() to process GET and POST to /test/
• /page/ => Loads \Controllers\Page.php and uses default methods like get() post() to process GET and POST to /page/

[mrjgreen]

Okay - try one of the set ups I've suggested and let me know what you find... does that give the expected results? I'm not 100% sure I understand what you are trying to achieve with your routes. Perhaps if you could give me an idea of which routes you want to define I will show you how to do it. So post something showing:

GET     /
GET     /page
POST    /page/create
PUT     /page/update
etc...

[TCB13]

I don't know if you read my comment because we commented almost at the same time. The ideia, as described, was to:

• GET /test/: Loads Controllers\Test.php and uses method get() to process the request;
• POST /test/: Loads Controllers\Test.php and uses method post() to process the request;
• GET /page/: Loads Controllers\Page.php and uses method get() to process the request;
• POST /page/: Loads Controllers\Page.php and uses method post() to process the request;

[mrjgreen]

You are right I didn't :) I've moved my reply below

class Test {
    public function getIndex(){
        return 'GET - test'
    }

    public function postIndex(){
        return 'POST - test'
    }
}

class Page {
    public function getIndex(){
        return 'GET - page'
    }

    public function postIndex(){
        return 'POST - page'
    }
}

$router->controller('/test', 'Controllers\Test');
$router->controller('/page', 'Controllers\Page');

#To have routes responding on:
GET      /page    //GET - page
POST     /page    //POST - page
GET      /test    //GET - test
POST     /test    //POST - test

You are correct that get() and post() will achieve a similar result but this is not actually by design. I would advise against using that... its undefined behaviour and may change in the future.

[mrjgreen]

Note this would then allow you to extend functionality by doing:

class Page {
    public function getIndex(){
        return 'GET - page'
    }

    public function postIndex(){
        return 'POST - page'
    }

    public function putPublish(){
        return 'POST - publish'
    }

    public function putSuspend
        return 'POST - suspend'
    }

    etc...
}

$router->controller('/page', 'Controllers\Page');

#To have routes responding on:

GET      /page    //GET - page
POST     /page    //POST - page
PUT      /page/publish    //PUT - publish
PUT      /page/suspend    //PUT - suspend
etc...

[mrjgreen]

I actually quite like your idea of defining the default route using just get(), post() etc...

Maybe I will add this into the tests and make it defined behaviour :) Then we can keep it!

[TCB13]

Great! I initially misunderstood the default routing using Index. I'm glad that even with that we could make anything useful with it!

As I said before just get() and post() make things easier, I'm not really against adding Index on those methods, but well, you know, simplicity always pays off.

Anyway, what about this:

$router->controller('/page/{id:i}', "$ns\\Page");

I always get a Phroute\\Phroute\\Exception\\BadRouteException: Cannot use the same placeholder 'id' twice is this normal? Why can't it be done?

Thanks for all!

[Timmybrain]

Great! I initially misunderstood the default routing using Index. I'm glad that even with that we could make anything useful with it!

As I said before just get() and post() make things easier, I'm not really against adding Index on those methods, but well, you know, simplicity always pays off.

Anyway, what about this:

$router->controller('/page/{id:i}', "$ns\\Page");

I always get a Phroute\\Phroute\\Exception\\BadRouteException: Cannot use the same placeholder 'id' twice is this normal? Why can't it be done?

Thanks for all!

I am really interested in this last question.

How can I get ID or other unique identifiers from a controller based routes!

[DoctorMcKay]

@Timmybrain You can use func_get_arg(0) to get the first placeholder value in your controller's route. In fact, if you have placeholders in your controller's route, you must use func_get_arg for everything, even if you specify further arguments in the controller method.

For example:

$router->controller('/users/{id}', UserController::class);

And in your controller, you might have:

class UserController {
    public function getIndex() {
        echo "User ID: " . func_get_arg(0);
    }

    public function getFoo($arg) {
        echo "User ID: " . func_get_arg(0) . "; arg: " . func_get_arg(1);
    }
}

Thus requesting /users/5 would output User ID: 5 and requesting /users/5/foo/9 would output User ID: 5; arg: 9.