How do I generate Laravel 4 URL with index.php? - php

I am new to Laravel 4. I am trying to generate a URL using the URL helpers. There is a function called url(). It gives me a URL. But it doesn't add index.php to it.
I want a URL with index.php in it. I cannot use route() function because I am using Route::controller('/', 'SiteController'); I don't want to use action() because if there is no index.php it will not generate a URL with index.php.


1) index.php is where the "app" starts and launches.
2) .htaccess rewrites the URL for u.
3) the whole point of URL() is to provide the BASE url of your domain back so that you dont need to hardcode it - therefore you are using it wrong.
4) the only time index.php is there is if .htaccess is not rewriting or not accepted (ie in yahoo share hosting basically) therefor eyou can achieve your index.php/site/index.

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HTML URL shortcuts instead of page name

I am not exactly sure the exact words to google.
How do I rename the url link to a simpler one for my webpages?
example:
from:
websitename.com/about_us_what_we_do.php
to:
websitename.com/what-we-do
another example is to let the homepage just show the address
from:
websitename.com/main.php
to
websitename.com/

You can use url rewriting using .htaccess
In .htaccess you have to mention the url that what you want & which will redirect you to actual page.
Exp :
browser url will be: domain_name/what-we-do
& Actual url will be : domain_name/about_us_what_we_do.php
in .htacces you have to mention :
RewriteRule ^what-we-do$ /about_us_what_we_do.php [L]
Check this ref:
I have short the URL Using .htaccess but every shortened URL goes to the same page

This can be done by creating a subfolder with the name what-we-do
and renaming your file about_us_what_we_do.php to index.php.
Then, you'll have your site root directory. Inside you'll have a folder named what-we-do with an index.php file inside.
If you want to do things right, you should look into VirtualHosts ( assuming you're managing the Apache server)

get subdomain in htaccess and route to a new folder

Is it possible to extract the subdomain part of a domain and use it like a variable in an .htaccess file?
Example
mysub.domain.com
What I'm looking for
(*).domain.com /$
after that the "mysub" is inside the "$-Sign"
Completely I want to route to another subfolder
normally mysub.domain.com routes to the "maindist" folder
now I want to do it more dynamically, so I want to route inside the folder which has the name of the subdomain
mysub.domain.com
normal route->maindist
after htaccess route->mysub
in best case I can do that without notice of the user, so without changing the addressbar from the browser.
Hope somebody can help and explain.

page before url / change url

I created a login website, and my URL became like this
http://localhost/koperasi/index.php/cukl/index
how to make my url like...
http://localhost/koperasi/index.php/cukl
because I want to make a crud program but I think I have a problem in the url
**
my previous program using http://localhost/lee/index.php/buku so my page can entered CRUD on http://localhost/lee/index.php/buku/ubah
but now my newer program url is http://localhost/koperasi/index.php/cukl/index
how and where to change the url? is in the controller? model? or view?

I think, firstly you have to add an htaccess file which will remove index.php in your URL.
and inside the route.php file, you can define a new URL which you want.
Like this.
$route['cukl'] = 'cukl/index';

codeigniter only pages to an existing website

My website structure somewhat looks like below
css/
lib/
js/
index.php
profile.php
products.php
checkout.php
orders.php
invoice.php
I have added a codeigniter folder in there ...
codeigniter/application/
codeigniter/application/controllers/
codeigniter/application/controllers/mycontroller.php
and other files
I can access CodeIgniter stuff by going to mywebsite.com/codeigniter/mycontroller etc fine.
However, I want to get rid of /codeigniter/ part from the URL. So I was wondering if it is possible to create a whitelist of the files which are CodeIgniter specific? For example, if the URL is mywebsite.com/mycontroller then it does CI stuff otherwise it looks for the plain PHP code file. I have only a couple of CI controllers and loads other non-CI files.
Any ideas?

I think you could use .htaccess to rewrite URL's that don't contain .php, css, lib and js. Something like:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^(\.php|css|js|lib)$
RewriteRule (.*) codeigniter/index.php/$1
So:
http://example.com/css/test.css
stays
http://example.com/css/test.css
(as will all requests to css|lib|js. You can append more things here for the rewrite to ignore)
http://example.com/controller/method
becomes
http://example.com/codeigniter/index.php/controller/method
You can test it out here: http://htaccess.madewithlove.be/
More on rewriting: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html

Short-term Solution
You can start by simply converting the index.php file into a controller and name it whatever you wish:
<?php
class New_default_controller extends CI_Controller {
public function index()
{
// home page stuff here
}
}
Alter the route.php file and set your default controller so that simply visiting your site will trigger the proper controller:
$route['default_controller'] = 'new_default_controller';
Apply the instructions for Removing the index.php file
Now calls to www.mysite.com/profile.php will access the profile.php at your root and calls to www.mysite.com/new_future_page will call your new_future_page controller.
Please let me know if any of this is confusing or you get stuck.
Optimal Solution
I wanted to leave a comment above but this would have been impossible to show as a comment.
You will have to take your PHP files and put them in the controllers folder like this:
codeigniter/application/controllers/profile.php
codeigniter/application/controllers/products.php
codeigniter/application/controllers/checkout.php
codeigniter/application/controllers/orders.php
codeigniter/application/controllers/invoice.php
Please go through and do the Tutorial before continuing any further. Specifically the Static Pages section will help you in achieving your goal.
You will have to convert your current PHP files to follow the flow of CodeIgniter

How to solve the case when users surf to index.php

In Zend framework, using the MVC, if A user surf explicitly to http://base/url/index.php instead of just http://base/url, The system thinks the real base url is http://base/url/index.php/ and according to that calculates all the URLs in the system.
So, if I have a controller XXX and action YYY The link will be
http://base/url/index.php/XXX/YYY which is of course wrong.
I am currently solving this by adding a line at index.php:
$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]=str_replace('index.php','',$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]);
I am wondering if there is a built-in way in ZF to solve this.

You can do it with ZF by using Zend_Controller_Router_Route_Static (phew!), example:
Read the manual page linked above, there are some pretty good examples to be found.
$route = new Zend_Controller_Router_Route_Static(
'index.php',
array('controller' => 'index', 'action' => 'index')
);
$router->addRoute('index', $route);
Can't say I totally disagree with your approach. That said, others may well point out 5000 or so disadvantages. Good luck with that.

Well it really depends on how you want to solve this. As you know the Zend Frameworks build on the front controller pattern, where each request that does not explicitly reference a file in the /public directory is redirected to index.php. So you could basically solve this in a number of ways:
Edit the .htaccess file (or server configuration directive) to rewrite the request to the desired request:
RewriteRule (.*index.php) /error/forbidden?req=$1 // Rewrite to the forbidden action of the error controller.
RewriteRule index.php /index // Rewrite the request to the main controller and action
Add a static route in your bootstrapper as suggested by karim79.

Use mod_rewrite. Something like this should do it:
RewriteRule ^index.php/(.*)$ /$1 [r=301,L]

I don't think you should use a route to do this.
It's kind of a generic problem which shouldn't be solved by this way.
You better should have to do it in your .htaccess, which will offer you a better & easier way to redirect the user to where you want, like to an error page, or to the index.
Here is the documentation page for the mod_rewrite

I've never faced this problem using Zend Framework. just do not link to index.php file. that's it. and when your are giving your application's address to users, just tell them to go to http://base/url/
when the user enters http://base/url/ her request URI is base/url and your .htaccess file routs the request to index.php, but the request IS base/url. you do not need to remove 'index.php' from the request. because it is not there.
when you are trying to generate URLs for links and forms and ..., use the built-in url() view helper to generate your links. like this:
// in some view script
<a href="<?php
echo $this->url( array('controller'=>'targetController','action'=>'targetAction') );
?>" >click</a>
do not worry about the link. Zend will generate a URL for you.

The way I look at this is that if I have a website powered by PHP and a user goes to http://site/index.aspx then I would send a 404.
Even though index.php does exist in theory, it's not a valid URL in my application so I would send a 404 in this case too.

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