你如何在PHP中组织你的页面？

Question

Usually I have the main page (index.php) that include header/footer/menu and the content of the page. The content is changed checking some variable from the GET/POST method: for each condition, I load the page requested.

Somethings like :

website/
website/index.php?explore=forum
website/index.php?explore=users
website/index.php?explore=articles

and so on...

Now, my website is growing, and I think the best way is to call directly a "index" page for each section; so for example above, this will be traslate as :

website/
website/forum/
website/users/
website/articles/

that looks better, and is more confortable to manage! The problem is that, if I do this, I need to implement the contour for each zone (that include header/footer/menu).

So I don't know if there are a better strategy and if its convenient. Any suggestions/opinions is welcome! Thanks

Answer 1

You could get the bottom result with the top strategy by doing apache rewrites. For example, /forum could be re-written to go to www.yoursite.com/index.php?article=forum and so forth.

Here's the complete guide: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/misc/rewriteguide.html

Answer 2

Check out an MVC framework like Symfony (PHP), Rails (Ruby) or Django (Python).

In the MVC design pattern, you typically have one front controller which handles all the loading. You have models which interact with your data sources, and you have views which define the user interface. Controllers load data via the models, and then pass these to views.

In your example, each section would have a different controller, and different interaction types (the most common being create, list, delete, edit) have different actions.

Answer 3

You could just use .htaccess rewrite rules to redirect those nice-looking URLs to a single index.php file.

The only problem is that you'd have to come up with a way of differentiating the URLs to redirect ( website/forum/ , website/users/ , etc.) from the normal ones ( website/css/ , website/images/ , etc.).

There are some options:

1. Instead of using website/[pagename]/ , you could use website/page/[pagename]/ . Then your regex could just redirect every URL that matches ^/?page/[\\w+]/?$ to index.php?explore=[pagename]
2. Just explicitly list every page that you want to redirect; use a regex like ^/?[forum|users|articles]/?$
3. Don't worry about it. If you're only redirecting URLs that don't include a file name, then when you do try to reference CSS or images (ie, URLs that do include a filename), it shouldn't be an issue.

Answer 4

In our projects that are straight PHP (no framework like Symfony or whatever), we definitely have different directories and separate index files for each section, like you say.

But we generally just have one header include file, and one footer file, that applies to every page on the site. That keeps the header and footer consistent, and more manageable.

You can always include the header and footer with a line like

<?php include('../includes/head.php'); ?>

if you want to keep those files in their own directory. I think we actually have /includes on our include path so our lines just say

<?php include('head.php'); ?>