Rewrite URL in a somewhat MVC Framework? - php

Question

I am not quite sure if this is done by rewriting the URL, but I did not know how to title it accordingly.
Here is my problem. I am currently working on a website project where I am using a abstraction of the MVC Framework (it is mainly for learning the Framework).
This is how my folder-structure looks like:
/controller/
|--indexcontroller.php
/myaccount/
|--/controller/
|--indexcontroller.php
|--index.php
/globals/
|--framework.php
/templates/
/options/
|--settings.php
|--config-www.php.inc
So currently I am using autoloader to load the classes which are needed. The index.php in the myaccount folder inherits the Framework class which should handle the class loading:
$urlparts = explode("/", $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
$urlparts2 = explode("?", $urlparts[2]);
$class = str_replace(".php", "", $urlparts2[0]);
if ($class == "") {
$class = "index";
}
$letters_first = substr($class, 0, 1);
$letters_last = substr($class, 1, strlen($class));
$class = strtoupper($letters_first).$letters_last."Controller";
if (class_exists($class)) {
$object = new $class();
} else {
echo "Problem: class $class does not exist.";
}
The problem i have at the moment is, that I can only use "http://www.url.com/myaccount/" which is loading the indexcontroller.php in the controller folder from myaccount (which is fine). But I want also be able to use "http://www.url.com/myaccount/profile", where then instead "profilecontroller.php" in the controller folder from myaccount should be called.
How can I do this? URL rewriting? Or am I doing it totally wrong?

Answer 1

This might be a bit overwhelming at first but if you get it, it will make you life a lot easier.
1 ) Take a look at an existing framework like symfony, codeigniter, etc to see how they get the routing done.
2 ) Try to reuse these "components" (like routing form symfony) through composer so you won't have to do it yourself.
This way:
You won't have to write it all yourself.
You are using the hot stuff, like composer :)
You still learn by looking at the implementation of other frameworks
I hope this helps a bit :).