Jaxel's Method for Creating A Route Controller

[Jaxel]

Jaxel submitted a new resource:

Creating A Neater Route Controller (version 2.0) - The "proper" way to construct complicated route controllers...

Okay, so a while back I wrote a guide explaining how to do advanced sub-route controllers for your modifications. Its now two years later and I've learned so much about XenForo during this time that I've pretty much abandoned the way I previously did route controlling. I realize now that the...

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[Jaxel]

Okay, guide is done!

 

[Jaxel]

Jaxel updated Creating A Proper Route Controller with a new update entry:

A case study on XenTorneo

Added a case study in the guide about secondary data values for XenTorneo.

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[morpheus]

Thanks for this guide Jaxel! Being new to developing xenForo mods and PHP itself this explains a lot!

 

[Jaxel]

I realize now though that the guide I put together only works if your data actions have integers in them. If you're doing PURE string data, you may have issues. I came into this issue with my XenMedio mod; almost all the data types use number IDs... except for keyword pages. Keyword pages use string data only... I managed a workaround using the following as my match:

public function match($routePath, Zend_Controller_Request_Http $request, XenForo_Router $router)
{
    $action = $router->resolveActionWithIntegerParam($routePath, $request, 'action_id');
    $action = $router->resolveActionAsPageNumber($action, $request);
   
    $actions = explode('/', $action);
   
    switch ($actions[0])
    {
        case 'admin':            $controller = '_Admin';                break;
        case 'category':        $controller = '_Category';            break;
        case 'comment':            $controller = '_Comment';            break;
        case 'keyword':            $controller = '_Keyword';            break;
        case 'media':            $controller = '_Media';                break;
        case 'playlist':        $controller = '_Playlist';            break;
        case 'user':            $controller = '_User';                break;
        case 'service':            $controller = '_Service';            break;
        default:                $controller = '';
    }
   
    if (!empty($actions[1]) && $actions[1] == 'keyword')
    {
        $controller = '_Keyword';
        $action = $router->resolveActionWithStringParam($routePath, $request, 'string_id');
    }
   
    return $router->getRouteMatch('EWRmedio_ControllerPublic_Media'.$controller, $action, 'media');
}

 

[Matthew Hawley]

So...what do we name the PHP files?

 

[Jeremy]

The names of the files should correspond to the classes. Replace _ with / and add .php at the end.