Long Standing URL Problem

[david64]

Hi, my first post here. I've been programming PHP for some time, but never really had any need for help. However, I have had a long standing issue that I've never found a solution for, which I will detail here.

 

I have a loose framework for making sites, it consits of a few classes and I have also implemented a C-style multi-extend feature. It has a few different settings, the one I use most often is one that will run a method in my site class if it exists and include a template if it exists. For example if you load the page:

 

domain.ext/my-page

 

It will load the template _my-page.xsl and will run the method $site->html_my_page();

 

The template part is fine, however one problem is I might also have a page called:

 

domain.ext/my-page

 

and this would also run the method $site->html_my_page();

 

Because PHP uses the following reg. ex. [a-zA-Z_\x7f-\xff][a-zA-Z0-9_\x7f-\xff]* to validate function names I cannot have a function name including "-".

 

Does anyone have any ideas as to what I can do?

 

I am very keen on the method outlined above of running a method according to the URL.

[discomatt]

Simply convert illegal characters to underscores using either preg_replace, or str_replace ( if you only want to convert a few character to _ )

 

You would be limited by this, however, because my_page and my-page would return the same function... If you must, you could replace a dash with an odd string... xDASHx and name your function myxDASHxpage().