I am using Zend framework and it does URL rewriting
but I want to handle in controller just regular querysting, get request
seomthing like this transactionsExternal.phppage=1&start=0&limit=100&sort=threadid&dir=ASC&callback=Ext.data.JsonP.callback1
Can somebody tell me how to get this GET request variables in controller? considering that Zend prevents me just to use variables like $_GET[something]
$this->getRequest()->getParams(); also is not returning anything
ZF does not prevent you using $_GET, although doing so is discouraged. $this->getRequest()->getParam('start'), or $this->getRequest()->getParams() will give you the GET params. So if this isn't working for you something else is going wrong somewhere.
Is 'transactionsExternal.php' definitely part of your ZF app?
How are your controllers and actions set up?
Zend Framework 1 works with key/pair values for get parameters. So you might have a transaction controller and a get action. A request would look like so:
domain.com/transactions/get
To append and ID GET parameter you would do:
domain.com/transactions/get/id/10
Then In your controller action you would do the following to get the id value:
$request = $this->getRequest();
$request->getParam('id');
Related
Is it OK to use
$id = $request->get('some_id');
instead of setting some parameters in Routes AND Controller like:
Route::get('some_page/{parameters}', 'controllerName#functionName');
function functionName($parameters)
{
$id = $parameters;
}
Appreciation
Of course it's good. When you're using GET, both ways are similar and if you like to use $request->get() for some reason, it's totally ok.
If you're using Form, it's the only right way. Plus, you can create custom Request class to use it for validation and other operations:
https://laravel.com/docs/master/validation#form-request-validation
They have two fundamentally different goals.
Using $request->get() is a way to retrieve a value from inside the php's REQUEST object regardless of its association with routing pattern you use.
Following HTTP's standards, you probably use $_GET to read some value without it changing the database [significantly] and you use $_POST to write data to you server.
While {pattern} in routing ONLY and ONLY should be used as a way for your application to locate something, some resource(s); in other words, its only goal is to help you route something in your server.
Nevertheless, in certain cases, such as /user/{id} the value of {id} might encounter some overlapping as to whether be treated as a route parameter or as a key of $_REQUEST.
Things such as tokens, filters criteria, sorting rules, referrers (when not significantly) etc. can be read right from $_REQUEST without interfering them into routing pattern of you application.
This seems like it should be a simple task. I need the current URL from a function within the Controller. This function can be called from multiple actions, and the end goal is to set a form's action attribute. (Side note: It appears IE does not send an ajax request if the URL starts with '#').
I feel like my google-fu is off today because I could not find a good way to do this Zend Framework 2. I have this line currently, but it feels very bulky:
$this->url()->fromRoute(
$this->getServiceLocator()
->get('Application')
->getMvcEvent()
->getRouteMatch()
->getMatchedRouteName()
);
Couldn't you just get the URI from the request object:
$this->getRequest()->getUriString()
Provided your controller extends Zend\Mvc\Controller\AbstractActionController.
Note: This would output the entire URL, like so:
http://example.com/en/path/subpath/finalpath?test=example
If your request route is like this:
http://example.com/en/path/subpath/finalpath?test=example
And You want only this:
/en/path/subpath/finalpath?test=example
You can simply do : $this->getRequest()->getRequestUri()
To specify my Request object is an instance of
\ZF\ContentNegotiation\Request
I have a route like this:
Route::get('demo/{system?}', 'MonitorController#demo');
I am using it like so because I would like my url to look like so:
mysite.com/demo/spain-system
Where spain-system will be the variable I need to get.
Right now, I'm getting it like this:
public function demo($systemName = null){
}
But I would like to be able to access to it as if it were a URL parameter with Input::get('system') so I can access to it from other methods or even from other controllers such as BaseController.php.
Is there any way to achieve this?
I've played around with Route::input('system') but then it doesn't work when I pass it as a get parameter (in other Ajax calls and so on)
Update
In PHP we can get URL params by using the $_GET function and laravel provides the function Input::get() to do so as well.
If there were no routes in laravel, I would make use of .htaccess rewrite rules to change this:
mysite.com/demo/?system=spain-system
To this:
mysite.com/demo/spain-system
And I could still retrieve the variable system as a GET parameter by using $_GET["system"].
That's kind of what I would expect of laravel, but it seems it is just treating it as the parameter of the demo method and not really as a URL variable.
Is there any way to keep treating it as a URL variable and at the same time use it in a pretty URL without the ?system= ?
So you actually just want to get an url like this? mysite.com/demo/spain-system instead of mysite.com/demo/?system=spain-system? Laravel provides that by default?
Look, When you want to get the router variable {system?} to be accesible you'll need to do this:
In your router:
Route::get('demo/{system}', 'MonitorController#demo');
Then you have an controller where this noods to stand in:
public function demo($system)
{
//your further system
//You are be able to access the $system variable
echo $system; //just to show the idea of it.
}
When you now go to to localhost/demo/a-system-name/, You'll see a blank page with a-system-name.
Hope this helps, because your question is abit unclear.
Zend Framework 1 had a very simple way of parsing URL routes and setting found params in the $_GET superglobal for easy access. Sure, you could use ->getParam($something) inside the controller, but if the param was found in the URL, it was also accessible via $_GET.
Example for url mypage.com/mymodule/mycontroller/myaction/someparam/5:
ZF1
$this->getParam('someparam'); // 5
$_GET['someparam']; // 5
ZF2
$this->getEvent()->getRouteMatch()->getParam('someparam'); // 5
$_GET['someparam'] // undefined index someparam
Obviously, the difference is that ZF2 does NOT put the route params into the $_GET superglobal.
How do I make it put the parsed parameters into the $_GET superglobal, since extending the controller and just defining a constructor that does that is out of the question (because RouteMatch is not an object yet and cannot be called from the controller's constructor)?
Calling $_GET = $this->getEvent()->getRouteMatch()->getParam('someparam'); in every one of my controllers would work, but I don't want that.
In other words, following the example URL from above, I want to be able to do $_GET['someparam'] and still get the value "5" in any component in the application.
Edit: Looks like I wasn't clear enough, so I'll try to clarify some more. I want whatever param I enter in the URL via /key/value formation to be available in $_GET instantly. I don't really have a problem with getting the param, I know how to get it and I extended Zend's controller so I can just call $this->getParams again like in ZF1, and now all controllers extend that one, I just want the params from the URL to automatically be in $_GET as well, so I can access them easily in third party components which use $_GET natively.
Edit 2: Updated as reaction to Samuel Herzog's answer:
I don't really mind invalidating the SRP in this case, because the libraries are built in such a way that they need direct access to $_GET - they do their own filtering and directly depend on this superglobal. They also directly fetch $_FILES and $_POST for processing, it's just the way their code works.
I've made the following method in the abstract controller:
$this->mergeGet(); which basically makes $_GET absorb all the route matched params and everything works as intended, but seeing as the libraries will be required in every controller/action, it might get tedious to call that method every time. If only the controller had an init() method like in ZF1...
In ZF2, Im using this
$getparams = $this->getRequest()->getQuery();
First of all, you shouldn't use $_GET or any other superglobal directly if you're building on an object oriented stack. The SRP is invalidated this way.
If you have no possibility to change the way of your (3rd party?) librarys to change you might want to hook into the MvcEvent, listen to --event-- and then get the RouteMatch, you may fill $_GET with a simple loop.
For a most-performant answer, you should know if the named library will be needed for every action, just for one module, or only in certain controllers/actions.
If the latest is your use-case, you should write a controller plugin instead.
some example code for the first approach:
namespace YourModule;
use Zend\EventManager\EventInterface as Event;
use Zend\Mvc\MvcEvent;
class Module
{
...
public function onBootstrap(Event $ev)
{
$application = $e->getApplication();
$eventManager = $application->getEventManager();
$eventManager->attach('route', function(MvcEvent $mvcEvent) {
$params = $mvcEvent->getRouteMatch()->getParams();
foreach ( $params as $name => $value )
{
if ( ! isset($_GET[$name])
{
$_GET[$name] = $value;
}
}
});
}
}
You could use in your controlller:
$paramValue = $this->params()->fromQuery('your_param_here');
Regards
I am using the Zend framework and what I need is to construct a url in my view. Normally in regular php code I'd just grab the GET Variable by using the global $_GET. However with Zend I'm setting it to clean URIs so :
?ac=list&filter=works&page=2
Looks like
index/ac/list/filter/works/page/2
In my view I'm setting a links cs such that if the GET variable filter equals works then the color of that link would be different and it would point to the same page only linked as so:
index/ac/list/filter/extra/page/2
And like wise I have a number of other links all which just one GET value - how do I set this up - I am using the Zend framework.
To access a request variable direct in the view you could do:
Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance()->getRequest()->getParam('key');
But as others have said, this is not a good idea. It may be easier, but consider other options:
set the view variable in the controller
write a view helper that pulls the variable from the request object
If you need to access a GET parameter from a view, i think you're doing it the wrong way.
I suggest that you set up a route with all your parameters, and then use $this->url from your view to render a valid and correct url.
Fore som more info, check out the following blog post (no, i'm not the author):
http://naneau.nl/2007/07/08/use-the-url-view-helper-please/
Edit:
If you want to be 'lazy', you can set a view parameter from your controller by doing $this->view->param = $this->_getParam('param'). You can then access param from your view by doing echo $this->param;. However, i do not recommend this.
To access the Request Object one way that is common is to save it in the Registry.
http://osdir.com/ml/php.zend.framework.mvc/2007-08/msg00158.html
http://www.zfforums.com/zend-framework-components-13/model-view-controller-mvc-21/how-access-request-object-customizing-layout-view-3349.html
You can pass it in from a controller: $this->view->page = $this->_getParam('page');.
Footnote: I agree with #alexn.
i am using Zend Framework v1.11 and i am doing like this
In Controller
$this->view->request = $this->_request;
then in View you can access any Request param like this
<h3><?= $this->request->fullname ?></h3>