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Idea
On my own TXP sites and on a few larger TXP sites I run for a client, I often spin up new sections for little app-like projects, and I was thinking today that this might be convenient.1
Along with other per-section options, let’s say this option is available to a given section:
[x] Convert invalid URL segments to variables
Then let’s say you visit /section/example/, and there’s no article there. If you have this option turned on, instead of showing a 404 error, your browser is redirected to /section/ and now the Textpattern variable urlSegment1 has the value “example” and is available for use in the page template being used at /section/.
So you could do something like:
http://www.example.com/books/id/345
And then inside the /books/ page template (pseudocode):
if (urlSegment1 == "id" && urlSegment2 != "") {
//query third-party database
book_lookup(urlSegment2)
}Thoughts? Too edge-casey for TXP? Just thinkin’.
1 And it is conveniently stolen from another CMS. Still I think this really harnesses one of TXP’s strengths—you can easily start up a new section in your browser and get coding.
Last edited by maruchan (2015-07-17 04:46:59)
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That’s just the right side of crazy to be useful.
How do you propose the passed info is made secure? Any sanitisation done before being turned into a variable?
Regardless, I’d be tempted to just stuff any future parts into an array instead of separate variables:
if (isset($urlParam[0]) && urlParam[0] === "id"
&& isset($urlParam[1]) && urlParam[1] != "") {
book_lookup($urlParam[1]);
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I’ve got a plugin, etc_url, that can extract (sanitized) txp-related parameters from an url. For example, <txp:etc_url url='<txp:page_url />' type="id" /> will return 345 on http://www.example.com/books/345, even if this article does not exist.
So you could include something like this at the beginning of in your error_404 page template:
...
<txp:variable name="id" value='<txp:etc_url url=''<txp:page_url />'' type="id" />' />
<txp:if_variable name="id">
<txp:php>txp_status_header();</txp:php>
do something special
<txp:else />
normal error handling
<txp:if_variable>The download site is currently offline, but I can send it by email.
It would be even cleaner to intercept the 404 error, registering a callback on textpattern that sets $pretext['status'] = 200 and $pretext['page'] = 'default' (or whatever), and include the snippet above (without txp_status_header) in your section page.
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etc wrote #293377:
It would be even cleaner to intercept the 404 error, registering a callback on
textpattern
Can you use the callback in txp_die()?
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How do you propose the passed info is made secure? Any sanitisation done before being turned into a variable?
Personally I like the idea of pushing sanitization-thinking onto end-user designers/developers and I think it’d be pretty cool to add some sanitization options to txp:variable for e.g. email, phone, etc. and then maybe adding a warning in Diagnostics and/or in Testing mode if txp:variable is in use without sanitization. But I have only broad ideas there.
I’ve got a plugin, etc_url
Love to try it. Would it support longer parameter lists like /products/motorcycles/honda, where only /products/ exists as a section in the DB?
Last edited by maruchan (2015-07-17 17:47:15)
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