I'm writing a url shortener, I already solve url shortening. Given a certain long URL (LURL), I get a CODE with the help of a script and a database to form a short URL (SURL) of the type:
mysite.com/CODE
So the ralationship between the code and the LURL is stored and must be consulted in the DB. Now as you can see I need a way to do that. My plan is that all the all url in mysite.com direct to the same page where the CODE is taken as a parameter and in this way make a consult in the db fetching the code from the SURL and then redirect with a script to the LURL.
I dont want to generate a SURL that uses a GET request like:
mysite.com/?CODE
It would be easier but I decided not to do it because it defeats the propose of url shorteners by occupying a character unnecessarily.
How would you implement it? Is this method convenient? If you do not think so I would really appreciate you give me your opinion. Maybe there are better ways to do it now that I already have the DB and the shortening algorithm. See you later.
http://www.webcheatsheet.com/PHP/get_current_page_url.php
check out the curPageURL() function.
$pageURL = curPageURL();
$itemArray= explode("/", $pageURL);
$myCode = $itemArray[1];
something like that will do, but not tested. It just gives you an idea of what you can do.
also, to get the url, here is an simplified version: http://phpeasystep.com/phptu/27.html
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I have a AngularJS App. When I have for example following URL:
foo.bar/app/#/en
and the user change it in the browser to (without reloading the page):
foo.bar/app/#/de
Some random controllers and $watch-functions are running again, causing some problems.
Is there a way to tell AngularJS not to do anything there? I dont want any functions/controller/whatever to run, if the hash parameter is changed
Thank you very much.
Found the solution:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/14329570/1678067
Works 100% perfect. Still not sure, what is exaclty happening, when I change something in the Hash param (in the URL).
So, I spent some time and built a quick API for a project that I'm doing for myself.
I used the Postman add-on for Chrome to mimic PUT and DELETE quests to make sure everything worked correctly. Really happy I did that, as I learned a lot about PHP's shortcomings with PUT and DELETE requests.
Using the API I've had working with Postman, I started moving everything over to AngularJs controllers and such.
I'm trying to get a user to claim a row in a database as the login information for the users is different than this particular information. I couldn't figure out why the put requests to claim the row in my database wasn't working. Lo and behold, the data being parsed from my parsestr(file_get_contents('php://input')) had 1 array key, which was a JSON string.
I've looked, and I can't seem to find a solid answer either through Stackoverflow or Google (maybe I missed it somewhere in the config options), So my question is this: is there any way I can get the $http.put call send the data to the server correctly?
Thanks to user Chandermani for pointing me to the link at this URL which answered the base of my question.
From the above link, I found myself on This Blog post submitted by another user. In the end, what I ended up doing was the following:
taking param() function from the above link, as well as implementing these lines of code:
var app = angular.module('ucpData', [] , function($httpProvider){
$httpProvider.defaults.transformRequest = [function(data) {
return angular.isObject(data) && String(data) !== '[object File]' ? param(data) : data;
}];
});
Is how I worked around the problem. For some developers, you may actually want to keep the default transformRequest settings, but for the project I am doing I know that I will end up forgetting to call param() at some point, and my server doesn't naturally accept json data anyway. I would caution future developers to consider what they are attempting to do before they alter the transformRequest array directly.
Is there a way to make the Play! Framework ignore slashes and ? in parts of the URL?
Typically, if I have the following:
www.123.com/api/link/http:www.bla.com/?contenId=123&User=test
It won't work. In that case, what I would want to do is simply have the link in the last part of the URL in a String variable to save it. I suppose I can force the client to replace the / and ? by something else, but I would rather keep it simple.
My first thought was that maybe there is a way to configure the routing such that we have something like:
/api/link/{data}
where data would hold whatever remains of the URL. Can't find out how to do that though.
You can't have : / ? except your main URL. You should encode your parameter to append it to main URL. See URLEncoder for Java.
This is not a valid URL:
http://www.123.com/api/link/http://www.bla.com/?contenId=123&User=test
It must be:
http://www.123.com/api/link/http%3a%2f%2fwww.bla.com%2f%3fcontenId%3d123%26User%3dtest
Then you can pass it to {data} parameter and decode it in your handler method.
(I know there's a couple of other reverse-routing-slugs questions on this site, but I'm not having much luck relating the answers to my particular issue, so I'll ask my more specific question...)
I am building a site whose URLs now need to be slug-based, i.e. what was initially news/item/1 now has to have the URL news/firstnewsitem. And so on for a number of other controllers. I can easily get these addresses to work, and maybe even not stomp on my existing utility actions, with something like:
Router::connect('/:controller/:slug',
array('action'=>'item'),
array('pass'=>array('slug'), 'slug'=>'[^(index|add|edit|view|delete)]')
);
However, the reverse routing of these new links seems to be a non-starter: Cake is still generating such links as news/item/3. It seems optimistic to hope that a slug-based URL would automagically happen, but is there any array that I can pass in my Html->link parameters that will create the :controller/:slug format I'm looking for? Or do I have to cut my losses and back away from reverse routing at this point?
There's a pretty decent plugin for handling slug-based routing here:
https://github.com/jeremyharris/slugger
If you used this, you would be able to create links something like this
$html->link("some item", array(
'controller'=>'items',
'action'=>'view',
'Item'=>$item['id']
));
and that would output a link to /items/view/slug-for-your-item
How does cakephp handle a get request? For instance, how would it handle a request like this...
http://us.mc01g.mail.yahoo.com/mc/welcome?.gx=1&.rand=9553121_pg=showFolder&fid=Inbox&order=down&tt=1732&pSize=20&.rand=425311406&.jsrand=3
Would "mc" be the controller and "welcome" be the action?
How is the rest of the information handled?
Also note that you could use named parameters as of Cake 1.2. Named parameters are in key:value order, so the url http://somesite.com/controller/action/key1:value1/key2:value2 would give a a $this->params['named'] array( 'key1' => 'value1', 'key2' => 'value2' ) from within any controller.
If you use a CNN.com style GET request (http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/books/04/27/ayn.rand.atlas.shrugged/index.html), the parameters are in order of appearance (2009, SHOWBIZ, books, etc.) in the $this->params['pass'] array, indexed starting at 0.
I strongly recommend named paramters, as you can later add features by passing get params, without having to worry about the order. I believe you can also change the named parameter separation key (by default, it's ':').
So it's a slightly different paradigm than the "traditional" GET parameters (page.php?key1=value1&key2=value2). However, you could easily add some logic in the application to automatically parse traditional parameters into an array by tying into how the application parses requests.
CakePHP uses routes to determine this. By default, the routes work as you described. The remainder after the '?' is the querystring and it can be found in $this->params['url'] in the controller, parsed into an associative array.
Since I found this while searching for it, even though it's a little old.
$this->params['url']
holds GET information.
I have tested but it does work. The page in the Cakephp book for it is this link under the 'url' section. It even gives an example very similar to the one in the original question here. This also works in CakePHP 1.3 which is what I'm running.
It doesn't really use the get in the typical since.
if it was passed that long crazy string, nothing would happen. It expects data in this format: site.com/controller/action/var1/var2/var....
Can someone clarify the correct answer? It appears to me that spoulson's and SeanDowney's statements are contradicting each other?
Would someone be able to use the newest version of CakePHP and get the following url to work:
http://www.domain.com/index.php/oauth/authorize?oauth_version=1.0&oauth_nonce=c255c8fdd41bd3096e0c3bf0172b7b5a&oauth_timestamp=1249169700&oauth_consumer_key=8a001709e6552888230f88013f23d5d004a7445d0&oauth_signature_method=HMAC-SHA1&oauth_signature=0bj5O1M67vCuvpbkXsh7CqMOzD0%3D
oauth being the controller and authorize being a method AS WELL as it being able to accept the GET request at the end?