[Solar-talk] Somehow nested controllers / Support for multiple applications

[Paul M Jones]

On Jun 6, 2007, at 8:53 AM, Rodrigo Moraes wrote:

> On 6/6/07, Andreas Ravnestad wrote:
>> Also note that this is the third time I am running into this problem.
>> Previously I solved it with using dynamic subdomains and some nifty
>> hacks, but this is not possible this time. It seems to me this  
>> must be a
>> very common problem.
>
> I think it is. As we were talking on IRC, Antti has in Abovo the
> concept of 'modules' - which are sub-apps placed inside an app folder.
> Correct me if I'm wrong, Antti - they extend an app an allow to
> organize app-families inside folders - so you can have app1/page1 and
> app2/page1 with two different page1 controllers.
>
> Abovo's front controller [1] basically adds one more level to an app
> folder, allowing to organize some kind of 'sub-apps'. I think it is an
> useful idea.

This is just what I was going to suggest.  Good call guys.  :-)

Andreas, you might extend the front-controller to recognize multiple  
leading path elements that indicate not only the page-controller, but  
also the application or module name.  Then a URI like this ...

     /appname/module/pagectl/method

... could map to Appname_Module_Pagectl::actionMethod(), and then the  
page-controllers themselves won't require extending.

I'm afraid building that into Solar_Controller_Front isn't going to  
happen soon, simply because paying work is at the top of my priority  
list.  However, if someone hits on a solution that is nicely  
configurable and works with existing apps, I'd be thrilled to review  
it for inclusion in Solar proper.



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