Comments on: The smallest PHP framework you shouldn’t code without

By: Neo

Neo — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 09:34:12 +0000

http://episuite.jaisenmathai.com/docs/ not working.

By: satya prakash karan

satya prakash karan — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:44:55 +0000

strange! second time i got the download fies. I will check it another day.

By: satya prakash karan

satya prakash karan — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:43:07 +0000

I followed this text link: (http://www.jaisenmathai.com/files/epicode-0.1.tar.gz.)
I got this Error. -
After much deliberation we have determined that the file you requested contains top secret information which we could not supply to you. Please check with your boss and make sure you have sufficient privileges to view this file.

By: jaisen

jaisen — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 05:32:10 +0000

@Richard, the link should work now. I’m not really familiar with codeigniter but I had a look and it seems to be interesting. It’s much more of a full featured framework (with plugins/modules and whatnot) than what I describe here. This framework is mean to do the bare minimum and leave the rest up to the developer to implement as they see fit.

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 03:36:51 +0000

I wasn’t able to download the framework. I was wondering how it’s size and speed compared to CodeIgniter (http://www.codeigniter.com/).

By: jaisen

jaisen — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:54:11 +0000

@Jeff,
I’m not too familiar with drupal. Does it let you go 3 levels deep? For example http://mysite.com/foo/bar/extra? If so, how does it handle that?

That is a really interesting idea actually. I just thought that it might be useful to have the first string be the class, second the method…then every additional one would be a parameter passed into that method.

So, http://mysite.com/foo/bar/1/deleted/jaisen would call foo->bar(1, ‘deleted’, ‘jaisen’).

Thoughts?

By: jaisen

jaisen — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:50:45 +0000

@Samuele,
The framework doesn’t support that currently. I haven’t come up with a really good way to implement that in a way which compliments the goal of EpiCode (small/fast). Would love input/feedback though. Right now any dynamic variables in the url need to be passed in through the query string and accessed via $_GET.

By: Jeff Eaton

Jeff Eaton — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:38:33 +0000

Samuele, that’s what I was wondering about. Drupal’s built-in menu router, for example, will do the path-walking that jaisen explains above, but will pass on any unused chunks of the URL as method params. For example:

http://www.mysite.com/foo gets mapped to $myobj->doFoo().

If you hit the url http://www.mysite.com/foo/bar, it would call $myobj->doFoo(’bar’);. I’ve found that approach to be pretty effective.

By: Samuele

Samuele — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:50:53 +0000

and how to set a route like
/print/$id ? where id is dinamic?

By: jaisen

jaisen — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:08:06 +0000

Jeff,

You can map /foo to a method and map /foo/bar to another method. It also traverses the url so if you only have the route /foo defined and a user tries to go to /foo/bar then it will load /foo. An example would be http://www.jaisenmathai.com/resume which exists and http://www.jaisenmathai.com/resume/foo/bar which does not exist.