[Owncloud] urlrouting

[Rok Andrée]

When i so this post i was very glad that finaly you're fixing owncouds
bigest problem: Total lack of designe.
So you didnt use a library and mvc or some other designe pattern from the
getgo. Ok nothing we can do about that.

But urlrouting is a very basic thing that has implications way beyond
astetic looks. Last time i coded on owncoud an API and an easy way to
interface plugins was just a wet dream.

But maby it's just me.

Lp
Rok Andrée


On 14 March 2012 13:49, Frank Karlitschek <frank at owncloud.org> wrote:

>
> On 14.03.2012, at 01:46, Roland van Laar <roland at micite.net> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
>
> Hi Roland,
>
> thank you for your contribution.
>
>
> > I added a url routing feature to owncloud.
> > For now only the root index and the files/index.php work.
> > lib/setup.php is also patched to setup a correct .htaccess when it's
> deployed behind Apache.
>
> How does it work if ownCloud is running on a webserver other than apache
> or if rewrite support is not installed or the user is not allowed to
> configure rewrites in .htaccess or can´t use .htaccess files at all?
>
> One of the main design goal of ownCloud is that is should run on as many
> servers as possible without problems and don´t require manual configuration
> from the user.
>
>
> > One of the reasons to add urlrouting is to allow for cleaner urls in
> owncloud.
> > It's now possible to remove the .php ending for example.
> > Another reason is increased security because with urlrouting only files
> > included in the url patterns are called from apache.
> > The other files, such as 3rd party libraries are now only accessible via
> code.
>
> I don´t really see the benefit for ownCloud here. ownCloud is a personal
> space for files and data and not a public website. So we don´t need to care
> about SEO urls or Google or how convenient it is to remember, tweet or mail
> urls. I agree that shorter urls without .php are prettier from an esthetics
> standpoint but this benefit is not strong enough to justify to make
> ownCloud incompatible with a lot of our users.
>
>
> >
> > A dispatch.php is added which becomes the starting point for all non
> img,ajax, css and js requests.
> > dispatch.php contains the starting point for urls.
> >
> > An example url patterns:
> > $urlPatterns = Array(
> >    Array('url' => '^/$', 'file' => 'index.php'),
> >    Array('url' => '^/index.php$', 'file' => 'index.php'),
> >    Array('url' => '^/files', 'dir_include' => 'files/'),
> > );
> >
> > It's possible to include urls.php files in other directories via the
> > 'dir_include' => dir_name syntax in the Array.
> >
> > The code:
> https://gitorious.org/~rvanlaar/owncloud/rvanlaars-owncloud-urlrouting
> >
> > What do you think?
> > Is this something that has the potential to be included in owncloud?
>
>
> I´m really sorry to say but I think that your proposal is not suitable for
> ownCloud at the moment.
> I hate to say this to a new contributor but I hope you understand the
> reason.
>
> I suggest to post to this mailing-list earlier next time if you propose
> big architectural changes so that we can discuss this before you spend a
> lot of time coding. :-)
>
>
> There are a lot of areas in ownCloud where we need help.
>
> If you need some inspiration you can have a look at:
> http://owncloud.org/dev/junior-jobs/  or
> http://bugs.owncloud.org/
>
>
> It would be awesome if you would help us to improve ownCloud in other
> areas and become a contributor.
>
> Thanks a lot :-)
>
> Cheers
> Frank
>
>
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