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Fiori - Cross Application Navigation
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_uiaddon10/helpdata/en/07/9561b716bb4f2f8ae4e47bacbdb86d/content.htm
Remove URL params on routing
My use case is like this:
I have multiple applications that should link to others (deep).
Since documentation of cross navigation mention to avoid deep links I decided to use a startup parameter.
For example:
Application A has a list of some items in the detail view of one item there is a reference to another application B that contains some other details.
Assume A shows article details and B shows some details of a producer of an article.
Application A would now use some navigation like this:
sap.ushell.Container.getService("CrossApplicationNavigation").hrefForExternal({
target : { semanticObject : "ApplicationB", action : "display" },
params : { "someID" : "102343333"}
})
Now in application B I use code like this inside the Component.js at the end of the init method.
var oRouter = that.getRouter().initialize();
var oComponentData = this.getComponentData();
if (oComponentData.startupParameters) {
oRouter.navTo("SomeView", {
someId : oComponentData.startupParameters.someID[0],
}, false);
}
First question: Is this the right place for handling the startup parameters?
Second question: If I using the navigation the startup parameter will still be in the code, I would prefer to remove it, but how?
Update
In the target application (B) it would lead to the following URL:
https://server/sap/bc/ui5_ui5/ui2/ushell/shells/abap/FioriLaunchpad.html?sap-client=100&sap-language=EN#SemObject-display?someID=102343333&/SomeView(102343333)/
Anyhow I would prefere to have something like this:
https://server/sap/bc/ui5_ui5/ui2/ushell/shells/abap/FioriLaunchpad.html?sap-client=100&sap-language=EN#SemObject-display?/SomeView(102343333)/
The parameter must be retrieved as
var oComponentData = this.getComponentData();
if (oComponentData.startupParameters) {
oRouter.navTo("SomeView", {
someId : oComponentData.startupParameters.someID[0],
}, false);
as you write. In Fiori applications, the startup parameters injected into the Component data of your constructor may have been renamed, enriched by further default values etc.. Thus they may be distinct from the parameter one observes in the url. Applications are advised to refrain from trying to inspect the URL directly.
If one supplies a very long set of url parameters, one will observer that the FLP replaces some of them with sap-intent-param=AS123424 ("compacted URL") to work around url length restrictions on some platforms and in bookmarks, in the
getComponentData().startupParameters one will receive the full set of parameters).
As to the second question.
No, there is currently no way to "cleanse" the URL and avoid the redundancy between and inner app route.
SemObject-display?someID=102343333&/SomeView(102343333)/
which after navigation may look like
SemObject-display?someID=102343333&/SomeView(102343999)/
App was started with 102343333, but then user navigated within the app to another item (102343999).
Any change in the "Shell-part" of the has (SemObject-display?someID102343333) will lead to a cross-app-navigation (reinstantiation of your component) with a different startupParameter.
(There are cases where this is desired in the flow, e.g. a cross navigation from a OrgUnit factsheet to the parent OrgUnit factsheet via a link).
There were ideas within SAP to fuse the inner-app routes and the intent parameters, but they were not carried out, as it's mostly url aesthetics.
Note: To support boomarking, one has to respect both startup parameters and
inner app route during component instantiation,
assuming the user created a bookmark on
SemObject-display?someID=102343333&/SomeView(102343999)/
(While he was looking at 9999(!)).
When reinstantiating the app, the inner app route should take higher precedence than startup-parameters.
So amend the code to:
var oComponentData = this.getComponentData();
if (oComponentData.startupParameters) {
if (sap.ui.core.getHashChanger().getHash()=== "") {
// if no inner app route present, navigate
oRouter.navTo("SomeView", {
someId : oComponentData.startupParameters.someID[0],
}, false);
}
}
https://sapui5.netweaver.ondemand.com/#docs/api/symbols/sap.ushell.services.CrossApplicationNavigation.html
SAP Fiori Launchpad for Developers, Navigation Concept
http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/907ae317-cb47-3210-9bba-e1b5e70e5c79?QuickLink=index&overridelayout=true&59575491523067
I was having issues navigating from a Fiori elements app in to a deep page in a freestyle UI5 app and then answer from #user6649841 provided most the solution for my requirement.
In my instance, navigating from the elements list report (app "A") in to the target freestyle app (app "B") I didn't want the worklist/initial page in app B to display at all and instead go straight to the detail page without a flickering of the initial app screen.
The below worked for me, note though it doesn't solve the ugly URL issues. In my case I'm not fussed about it as my nav back will nav back to the elements list report (App A) and never show the worklist page in App B so the user will never make another search on top of this URL which would lead with inconsistent inner and outer keys
Component.js (at end of init function after all the standard sap code, but before router initialization):
var oComponentData = this.getComponentData();
var startupParams = oComponentData.startupParameters;
if (startupParams && startupParams.myQueryStringParamName && startupParams.myQueryStringParamName[0]) {
//In my case using hash changer as I dont want the original landing page (default route) to be
//in the history, so the detail page loads straight away and nav back will cause to nav back to App A
var hashChanger = sap.ui.core.routing.HashChanger.getInstance();
hashChanger.replaceHash("detailPage/" + startupParams.myQueryStringParamName[0]);
}
//initialise after the above so the new hash is set and it doesnt initially load the
//page assigned to the default route causing a flickering and nav slide effect
this.getRouter().initialize();
Looking at the UI5 SDK in UI5 1.48 and above in the initialize method of router you can pass in a boolean to tell it to ignore the initial hash so possibly can do a simpler implementation in newer releases of UI5
Is Component.js right place for handling the startup parameters?
Depends,if you have multiple views and you want to dynamically route based on the incoming parameters. Else you can handle in specific view also.
Your second question was not quite clear to me.
Nevertheless, if you want to only specific cases of startup parameters, then from Source App, set some flag to understand where is the request coming from and handle accordingly. So this way, your normal navigation won't be tampered.
i have made a huge website(front & admin side) in Zend Framework now i want to do the same
project in ZF but for mobile devices.
i will certainly use HTML5 & jQuery mobile but before go ahead & start my development for my mobile website i want to ask experts what is the nice,easy,efficient and optimized way to do so ???
You'll probably want to checkout the ContextSwitch View Helper - which allows you to switch the view script based on a 'format' parameter. You could use that (or extend it) to switch your view to a more mobile friendly template.
Take a look at the JSON Context specifically, it disables the layout - the same technique could be used to switch the layout if a mobile request is detected.
Of course, if you can accomplish what you need with some CSS media queries, that's certainly the way to go.
You might also find Zend_Http_UserAgent useful to detect the available features of the mobile device. Again, similar to what's possible with media queries, but may be useful nonetheless.
But the bottom line is there's not need to 'convert' the site, there are plenty of tools to allow the same site to be accessible to both desktop and mobile users.
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me,Read me and i am sure you will like me
As the anwser from Fawad Ghafoor as disappeared from the internet (still available in the web archive https://web.archive.org/web/20110225213957/http://www.web-punk.com/2010/03/zend-framework-applications-for-iphone-blackberry-co/)
I don't know if that's ok, but i'll copy and format the content of the website here.
Zend Framework Applications for iPhone, BlackBerry & Co
Mobile devices have become pretty important during the last years. This tutorial will show you how to pimp up your website and make it ready for mobile devices like iPhone, BlackBerry, etc.
Before we start: as in all other posts of this blog, I expect that you are a software engineer and implemented your web application using the MVC (model / view / controller) pattern and probably also Zend_Layout.
1. What We Need
Basically, the only thing you have to do when making your web application ready for mobile devices is to a) detect if the user surfs to your site using a mobile or non-mobile device and b) change the V in MVC according to the result of a).
However, I find it quite useful to extent this approach a little bit. Beside replacing your views with views for a mobile device, we will do two other things: we will also replace the layout (Zend_Layout) used for your web application and we will use a different translation file (Zend_Translation). It is obvious why replacing the layout is useful, but why do we need to use a different translation file? Well, actually we don’t have to, but I found it quite handy if you have translation file for the big screen (where you might want to use looong textual descriptions) and a translation file for your mobile devices (with crisp descriptions, error messages, labels, etc.)
As we will see later on, Zend Framework’s Context Switch (http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.controller.actionhelpers.html) is (nearly) all we need… The ContextSwitch is an Action Helper that “is intended for facilitating returning different response formats on request”. This action helper comes with two different ready-to-use contexts: JSON and XML. For our example we will create an additional context named “mobile”.
Control Flow Schema is lost... at some point it was here : http://www.web-punk.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/mobile_wf-300x94.png
Basically, our control flow has to work as depicted in figure “Control Flow” (click on the figure to enlarge it). If a user surfs to http://mobile.example.com/controller/action, we directly set the correct context “mobile”. If a user surfs to http://www.example.com/controller/action, we check if he is using a mobile device. If he is using a mobile device, we’ll ask the user if he wants to use the mobile or desktop version of our web app. As we don’t want to ask the user whether or not he wants to use the mobile version each time he request a page, we will store her / his decision in a session variable (and only ask her again, if she was inactive for several minutes).
As an example for this workflow, please have a look at http://www.qulpa.com
2. Creating our Mobile Plugin
To achieve our goals, we will implement a small plugin. Before implementing this plugin we need a function that checks whether or not the current user is using a mobile device. You could use a smart solution like WURFL to do this. However, for our example, we will use a simple function that returs true if the user is using a mobile device and false otherwise. You’ll find dozens of functions that will do the job if you google for it. I’ll use a function that I found at Brain Handles.
Now, lets create our plugin. In your \plugins folder, create a file called Mobile.php and copy and paste the following source code:
<?php
class Plugin_Mobile extends Zend_Controller_Plugin_Abstract
{
// instead of defining all these parameters here,
// you could also put them into your application.ini
// if user is inactive for X minutes and surfs to
// www.example.com, we'll ask him again if he wants
// to user mobile or desktop version
private $ask_again_after_x_minutes = 10;
// used to test your mobile layout. Set this
// to 1 to emulate a mobile device
private $test_mobile = 0;
public function dispatchLoopStartup(Zend_Controller_Request_Abstract $request)
{
// did we already ask the user?
if (isset($_SESSION['mobileasked'])) {
// is mobile session still valid?
if (time() < $_SESSION['mobileasked']) {
// update session
$_SESSION['mobileasked'] = time() + $this->ask_again_after_x_minutes * 60;
// continue with requested page
return $request;
}
}
// otherwise, check if user is using a mobile device
// or if we are in test mode.
if ($this->checkmobile() || ($this->test_mobile == 1)) {
// if requested page != MOBILE.example.com
if (!(Zend_Registry::isRegistered('directmobile') && Zend_Registry::get('directmobile') == '1')) {
// set mobile session
$_SESSION['mobileasked'] = time() + $this->ask_again_after_x_minutes * 60;
// ask user if he wants to use mobile or desktop version
$request->setControllerName('index')
->setActionName('askmobile')
->setParam('format', 'mobile')
->setParams($request->getParams())
->setDispatched(false);
}
}
return $request;
}
/**
* This function returns true if user is using a mobile device. False otherwise.
* (c) by http://www.brainhandles.com/techno-thoughts/detecting-mobile-browsers
*/
private function checkmobile(){
if(isset($_SERVER["HTTP_X_WAP_PROFILE"])) return true;
if(preg_match("/wap\.|\.wap/i",$_SERVER["HTTP_ACCEPT"])) return true;
if(isset($_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"])){
// Quick Array to kill out matches in the user agent
// that might cause false positives
$badmatches = array("OfficeLiveConnector","MSIE\ 8\.0","OptimizedIE8","MSN\ Optimized","Creative\ AutoUpdate","Swapper");
foreach($badmatches as $badstring){
if(preg_match("/".$badstring."/i",$_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"])) return false;
}
// Now we'll go for positive matches
$uamatches = array("midp", "j2me", "avantg", "docomo", "novarra", "palmos", "palmsource", "240x320", "opwv", "chtml", "pda", "windows\ ce", "mmp\/", "blackberry", "mib\/", "symbian", "wireless", "nokia", "hand", "mobi", "phone", "cdm", "up\.b", "audio", "SIE\-", "SEC\-", "samsung", "HTC", "mot\-", "mitsu", "sagem", "sony", "alcatel", "lg", "erics", "vx", "NEC", "philips", "mmm", "xx", "panasonic", "sharp", "wap", "sch", "rover", "pocket", "benq", "java", "pt", "pg", "vox", "amoi", "bird", "compal", "kg", "voda", "sany", "kdd", "dbt", "sendo", "sgh", "gradi", "jb", "\d\d\di", "moto","webos");
foreach($uamatches as $uastring){
if(preg_match("/".$uastring."/i",$_SERVER["HTTP_USER_AGENT"])) return true;
}
}
return false;
}
Make sure, that you register this plugin! To do so you need something like this in your bootstrap:
// init PluginLoader. Adopt folder to your application...
$loader = new Zend_Loader_PluginLoader(array(
'Plugin' => APPLICATION_PATH . '/application/controllers/plugins',
));
// define plugin names and classes
$pluginList = array(
'plugin1' => $loader->load('Plugin1'),
'plugin2' => $loader->load('Plugin2'),
// [...]
'mobile' => $loader->load('Mobile'),
);
// get your front controller
$frontController = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance();
// Register your plugins
foreach ($pluginList as $pluginClass) {
$frontController->registerPlugin(new $pluginClass());
}
3. Context detection
That’s all you have to do in your mobile plugin. Next thing we have to do is to make sure that we detect the correct context. We’ll do this in our bootstrap. Open your bootstrap.php and put something like this inside:
// set correct context
$domains = explode('.', $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']);
if ($domains[0] == 'mobile' || $frontController->getParam('format') == 'mobile') {
if ($domains[0] == 'mobile') {
// if set, user will be redirected directly to requested page
Zend_Registry::set('directmobile', '1');
}
Zend_Registry::set('context', '\mobile');
} else {
Zend_Registry::set('context', '');
}
4. Asking the User
As we would like to ask the user if he wants to use the mobile or desktop version of our application, we will create a simple action in our index controller. We will redirect the user to this controller / action in our mobile plugin (see chapter 2).
Open your IndexController.php and create an askmobileAction:
public function askmobileAction()
{
// nothing to do here...
}
This action basically does… well, nothing ;-). Now, let’s have a look at the askmobile view. In your views folder, which probably will be \views\scripts\index create a file called askmobile.mobile.view and put something like this inside:
How do you want to use this application?<br/>
MOBILE VERSION
<br></br>
DESKTOP VERSION
That’s not really complicated, isn’t it? As you can see, the name of this view differs from the name of all the other views. As we will see later in this tutorial, ContextSwitch will make sure that the view name.MOBILE.phtlm is being called instead of name.phtml, if we are in the context MOBILE.
5. Your Mobile Layout
The next step is to create a unique layout for our mobile version. Whether or not this is necessary depends on your application. However, in most cases it will make sense to a complex layout for the desktop version of your application and a lightweight layout for the mobile version.
First, create a directory in your \layouts folder called \mobile (the full path with probably be something like \application\layouts\mobile but this depends on your application). Create a file called layout.phtml in this folder and put something this inside:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<?php echo $this->headTitle() . "\n" ?>
<?php echo $this->headLink() . "\n" ?>
</head>
<body>
<div id="header">This is your header</div>
<div id="content"><?= $this->layout()->content ?></div>
<div id="footer">This is your footer</div>
</body>
</html>
That´s our very simple layout for the mobile context. It is very likely that your layout will be much more complex even if you create it for mobile devices as you will probably include a CSS file, etc.
6. Putting everything together
We are already nearly finished. The last step is to use the context in your controllers. For this tutorial we will use the init() method of the IndexController, which you can use as template for all the other controllers in your application. Actually, instead of copying this code to all your controllers I prefer a smarter way that makes use of OO-Design paradigms (e.g., create a class MyMobileController that extends Zend_Controller_Action and get all the necessary parameters from your application.ini), however, this will do the job for this tutorial.
Open your IndexController.php file and copy and paste the following source code into it:
/**
* Initializes the controller & context
*
* #return void
*/
public function init()
{
parent::init();
// are we in the mobile context?
if (Zend_Registry::get('context') == '\mobile' || $this->getRequest()->getParam('format') == 'mobile')
{
// Mobile format context
$mobileConfig =
array(
'mobile' => array(
'suffix' => 'mobile',
'headers' => array(
'Content-type' => 'text/html; charset=utf-8')),
);
// Init the action helper
$contextSwitch = $this->_helper->contextSwitch();
// Add new context
$contextSwitch->setContexts($mobileConfig);
// This is where you have to define
// which actions are available in the mobile context
// ADOPT THIS TO YOUR NEEDS!
$contextSwitch->addActionContext('index', 'mobile');
$contextSwitch->addActionContext('askmobile', 'mobile');
// enable layout but set different path to layout file
$contextSwitch->setAutoDisableLayout(false);
$this->getHelper('layout')->setLayoutPath(APPLICATION_PATH . '/application/layouts/mobile');
// Initializes action helper
$contextSwitch->initContext('mobile');
}
}
7. Create your Mobile Views
Finally, you have to create your mobile views. For each view that is available in the mobile context (as defined in the init() method of your controllers), you have to create a mobile view. So, if you have an action called myaction you will need a myaction.phtml for the desktop version and a myaction.mobile.phtml for the mobile version of your application.
Congratulations! You’ve just created your first mobile web application ;-)
Appendix: Translation Files for a Mobile Device
As promised in chapter 1 we will use a different translation file for our mobile device / mobile context. This is quite handy as you might want to have shorter labels, description texts, error messages and so on. Of course, if you don’t need something like this you may simply skip this appendix.
Basically, all you need to do is to check in which context the application is and load the corresponding translation file.
Let’s assume that you store your translation files in the \application\translations\ folder and that you have an english and a french version of your application. Beside your fr.php and en.php files you should have a mobile version for each language in your translations folder: mobile_en.php and mobile_fr.php. The followin code snippet will load the corresponding translation file:
// Init Zend_Locale with corresponding language (assuming that $lang is set to 'en' or 'fr')
// and store the Zend_Locale object in the registry
Zend_Registry::set('Zend_Locale', new Zend_Locale($lang));
// Load translation file and store it in the registry
$langFile = APPLICATION_PATH . '/application/translations/';
if (Zend_Registry::get('context') == '\mobile') {
// if context = mobile, get translation file for mobile device
$langFile.= 'mobile_' . Zend_Registry::get('Zend_Locale')->getLanguage() . '.php';
} else {
$langFile.= Zend_Registry::get('Zend_Locale')->getLanguage() . '.php';
}
Zend_Registry::set(
'Zend_Translate', new Zend_Translate('array', $langFile)
);
I'm looking specifically for a way to automatically hyphenate CamelCase actions and views. That is, I'm hoping I don't have to actually rename my views or add decorators to every ActionResult in the site.
So far, I've been using routes.MapRouteLowercase, as shown here. That works pretty well for the lowercase aspect of URL structure, but not hyphens. So I recently started playing with Canonicalize (install via NuGet), but it also doesn't have anything for hyphens yet.
I was trying...
routes.Canonicalize().NoWww().Pattern("([a-z0-9])([A-Z])", "$1-$2").Lowercase().NoTrailingSlash();
My regular expression definitely works the way I want it to as far as restructuring the URL properly, but those URLs aren't identified, of course. The file is still ChangePassword.cshtml, for example, so /account/change-password isn't going to point to that.
BTW, I'm still a bit rusty with .NET MVC. I haven't used it for a couple years and not since v2.0.
This might be a tad bit messy, but if you created a custom HttpHandler and RouteHandler then that should prevent you from having to rename all of your views and actions. Your handler could strip the hyphen from the requested action, which would change "change-password" to changepassword, rendering the ChangePassword action.
The code is shortened for brevity, but the important bits are there.
public void ProcessRequest(HttpContext context)
{
string controllerId = this.requestContext.RouteData.GetRequiredString("controller");
string view = this.requestContext.RouteData.GetRequiredString("action");
view = view.Replace("-", "");
this.requestContext.RouteData.Values["action"] = view;
IController controller = null;
IControllerFactory factory = null;
try
{
factory = ControllerBuilder.Current.GetControllerFactory();
controller = factory.CreateController(this.requestContext, controllerId);
if (controller != null)
{
controller.Execute(this.requestContext);
}
}
finally
{
factory.ReleaseController(controller);
}
}
I don't know if I implemented it the best way or not, that's just more or less taken from the first sample I came across. I tested the code myself so this does render the correct action/view and should do the trick.
I've developed an open source NuGet library for this problem which implicitly converts EveryMvc/Url to every-mvc/url.
Uppercase urls are problematic because cookie paths are case-sensitive, most of the internet is actually case-sensitive while Microsoft technologies treats urls as case-insensitive. (More on my blog post)
NuGet Package: https://www.nuget.org/packages/LowercaseDashedRoute/
To install it, simply open the NuGet window in the Visual Studio by right clicking the Project and selecting NuGet Package Manager, and on the "Online" tab type "Lowercase Dashed Route", and it should pop up.
Alternatively, you can run this code in the Package Manager Console:
Install-Package LowercaseDashedRoute
After that you should open App_Start/RouteConfig.cs and comment out existing route.MapRoute(...) call and add this instead:
routes.Add(new LowercaseDashedRoute("{controller}/{action}/{id}",
new RouteValueDictionary(
new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }),
new DashedRouteHandler()
)
);
That's it. All the urls are lowercase, dashed, and converted implicitly without you doing anything more.
Open Source Project Url: https://github.com/AtaS/lowercase-dashed-route
Have you tried working with the URL Rewrite package? I think it pretty much what you are looking for.
http://www.iis.net/download/urlrewrite
Hanselman has a great example herE:
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ASPNETMVCAndTheNewIIS7RewriteModule.aspx
Also, why don't you download something like ReSharper or CodeRush, and use it to refactor the Action and Route names? It's REALLY easy, and very safe.
It would time well spent, and much less time overall to fix your routing/action naming conventions with an hour of refactoring than all the hours you've already spent trying to alter the routing conventions to your needs.
Just a thought.
I tried the solution in the accepted answer above: Using the Canonicalize Pattern url strategy, and then also adding a custom IRouteHandler which then returns a custom IHttpHandler. It mostly worked. Here's one caveat I found:
With the typical {controller}/{action}/{id} default route, a controller named CatalogController, and an action method inside it as follows:
ActionResult QuickSelect(string id){ /*do some things, access the 'id' parameter*/ }
I noticed that requests to "/catalog/quick-select/1234" worked perfectly, but requests to /catalog/quick-select?id=1234 were 500'ing because once the action method was called as a result of controller.Execute(), the id parameter was null inside of the action method.
I do not know exactly why this is, but the behavior was as if MVC was not looking at the query string for values during model binding. So something about the ProcessRequest implementation in the accepted answer was screwing up the normal model binding process, or at least the query string value provider.
This is a deal breaker, so I took a look at default MVC IHttpHandler (yay open source!): http://aspnetwebstack.codeplex.com/SourceControl/latest#src/System.Web.Mvc/MvcHandler.cs
I will not pretend that I grok'ed it in its entirety, but clearly, it's doing ALOT more in its implementation of ProcessRequest than what is going on in the accepted answer.
So, if all we really need to do is strip dashes from our incoming route data so that MVC can find our controllers/actions, why do we need to implement a whole stinking IHttpHandler? We don't! Simply rip out the dashes in the GetHttpHandler method of DashedRouteHandler and pass the requestContext along to the out of the box MvcHandler so it can do its 252 lines of magic, and your route handler doesn't have to return a second rate IHttpHandler.
tl:dr; - Here's what I did:
public class DashedRouteHandler : IRouteHandler
{
public IHttpHandler GetHttpHandler(RequestContext requestContext)
{
requestContext.RouteData.Values["action"] = requestContext.RouteData.GetRequiredString("action").Replace("-", "");
requestContext.RouteData.Values["controller"] = requestContext.RouteData.GetRequiredString("controller").Replace("-", "");
return new MvcHandler(requestContext);
}
}
I have 2 master pages. One is intended to be shown in a normal standalone website. The other is to be used in external sites as an Iframe.
I want to be able to show the normal page at http://example.com/home/index and the iframed version at http://example.com/framed/home/index
I want to have controls that will postback to one controller so I don't have to duplicate logic, so they must be available in both the normal and iframed versions.
My problem is that when I try and use areas, I just can't get them to work right with the default url. Also, I have the added complication of structuremap. When I try and hit /area/controller/action, I get
The IControllerFactory
'MySite.Web.Code.IoC.StructureMapControllerFactory'
did not return a controller for the
name 'MyArea'.
Does anyone know how to make this kind of setup work? Really all I'm doing is trying to show one set of views if it has /Framed/controller/action and another set if it does not have /framed. I thought areas were the way to go, but maybe not.
All of our controllers implement the same base class, and we use the following override to do what you're describing:
protected override ViewResult View(string viewName, string masterName, object model)
{
if (masterName == null)
{
var options = PortalRequestManager.CurrentPortalRouteOptions;
masterName = options.MvcMasterPath;
}
return base.View(viewName, masterName, model);
}
All of our AreaRegistrations use the following method to register their areas:
public static void RegisterMvcAreaRoutes(AreaRegistrationContext context, string name, string url,
object defaults)
{
context.MapRoute(name + "Portal",
"P/Channel/" + url,
defaults);
context.MapRoute(name + "FramePortal",
"F/Channel/" + url,
defaults);
}
And then the PortalRequestManager that you saw in the first code block parses the URL to see if it uses "/P" or "/F" to determine which MvcMasterPath to use.
We use Ninject's controller factory, which has no problem with this setup, so I can't really speak to your problems with StructureMap.
I tried to ask this once, but I think that my former question was too unclear for you guys to answer, so I'll try again
I'm making a website using the Zend Framework, and am trying to include the premade messageboard Phorum. So far, I've made it work by not running it through my bootstrap using my .htaccess file. What I'd like to do i'd like to do is to be able to run it through my bootstrap so that I can use my previously created Layouts and Classes that I can only run through Zend.
For example, I have a premade sign in system that works through Zend_Auth. I have the person's data saved in Zend_Session. I load the user's profile through a controller. I have a service layer for the model that connects to my database on behalf of the user. There are several other dependencies that, as far as I can tell, I need the bootstrap for.
Phorum is basically just a large set of PHP scripts that are dependent on GET parameters. My original idea had been to use a controller to render the scripts. An example of what that URI would look like is this: My-Site.com/messageboard/list.php?1,3 with messageboard being the messageboardController. While this works for loading list, it can't capture the GET parameters, which Phorum is dependent on. Due to the complex nature of Phorum, it would be nearly impossible for me to be able to go in and make it something like My-Site.com/messageboard/list/1/3 or anything along those lines. The URI has to be the former, as it is built in to Phorum.
I have tried using frames. I got to keep my log in panel up top, and had the body of the page be a frame, but it was unbookmarkable, and the back button made everything outrageously difficult. I also couldn't get the frame to talk to the parent page in Zend well, so frames aren't an option.
Does anyone have a way that I can do this? What I need, in essence, is to take the script (ex. list.php?1,3) and place whatever it would render, after having used the 1,3 parameters, into a div in the "body" div of my layout. As far as I can tell, render doesn't seem to be able to capture the GET parameters. Does anyone know of a way I can do this.
Any ideas would be immeasurably appreciated. Thank you for your help!
This isn't a trivial thing to process, however, it is possible to write a custom route, along with some controller magic to handle this sort of thing and include the proper php file:
First of all - Your route should probably be (in ZF1.9 application.ini conventions)
resources.router.routes.phorum.type = "Zend_Controller_Router_Route_Regex"
resources.router.routes.phorum.route = "messageboard(?:/(.*))?"
resources.router.routes.phorum.defaults.controller = "phorum"
resources.router.routes.phorum.defaults.action = "wrapper"
resources.router.routes.phorum.defaults.module = "default"
resources.router.routes.phorum.defaults.page = "index.php"
resources.router.routes.phorum.map.1 = "page"
Now all requests to messageboard/whatever.php should be routed to PhorumController::wrapperAction() and have 'whatever.php' in $this->getRequest()->getParam('page')
Then it should become a simple matter of redirecting your "wrapper" action to include the proper php file from phorum. I have added some code from a similar controller I have (although mine didn't include php files - it was meant solely for serving a directory of content)
public function wrapperAction() {
$phorumPath = APPLICATION_PATH."../ext/phorum/";
$file = realpath($phorumPath . $this->getRequest()->getParam('page');
if (!$file || !is_file($file)) throw new Exception("File not found");
// disable default viewRenderer - layout should still render at this point
$this->_helper->viewRenderer->setNoRender(true);
// determine extension to determine mime-type
preg_match("#\.([^.]+)$#", $filename, $matches);
switch (strtolower($matches[1]))
{
case "php":
// patch the request over to phorum
include($file);
return; // exit from the rest of the handler, which deals specifically
// with other types of files
case "js":
$this->getResponse()->setHeader('Content-Type', 'text/javascript');
ini_set('html_errors', 0);
break;
case "css":
$this->getResponse()->setHeader('Content-Type', 'text/css');
ini_set('html_errors', 0);
break;
case "html":
$this->getResponse()->setHeader('Content-Type', 'text/html');
break;
// you get the idea... add any others like gif/etc that may be needed
default:
$this->getResponse()->setHeader('Content-Type', 'text/plain');
ini_set('html_errors', 0);
break;
}
// Disable Layout
$this->_helper->layout->disableLayout();
// Sending 304 cache headers if the file hasn't changed can be a bandwidth saver
$mtime = filemtime($fn);
if ($modsince = $this->getRequest()->getServer('HTTP_IF_MODIFIED_SINCE'))
{
$modsince = new Zend_Date($modsince);
$modsince = $modsince->getTimestamp();
if ($mtime <= $modsince) {
$this->getResponse()->setHttpResponseCode(304);
return;
}
}
$this->getResponse()->setHeader('Last-Modified', gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s",$mtime). " GMT");
readfile($fn);
}
Please - Make sure to test this code for people trying to craft requests with .., etc in the page.