Site Structure

ziycon · #1 (**permalink**) 14-02-2008, 02:12 AM

I'm designing a site and its my first time using the below structure, just looking for a bit of feedback on it.

Basically there will be one file, just the index.php then a folder called source or something.
Every link on the site will have the parameter PID so a link will look like
http://www.site.com/index.php?PID=news
or
http://www.site.com/index.php?PID=photos

All that will be in the index file will be something like below:

PHP Code:

  <?php
include('source/'.$_GET['PID'].'.php');
source_index();
?>

Frodo · #2 (**permalink**) 14-02-2008, 04:49 AM

Before I go into 50 different things here can you answer 2 questions.

1. What is your php experience like? is that is sudo code? Can see the problems and security risks with it as is? (EDIT: did you write the code (php) for ign.ie yourself or is it all flat file too?)

2. Why are you choosing to include flat php files over doing a database lookup?

Forbairt · #3 (**permalink**) 14-02-2008, 07:16 AM

Madness :| of a sorts ..

Why the urge to do it this way ?

ziycon · #4 (**permalink**) 14-02-2008, 10:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Frodo

Before I go into 50 different things here can you answer 2 questions.

1. What is your php experience like? is that is sudo code? Can see the problems and security risks with it as is? (EDIT: did you write the code (php) for ign.ie yourself or is it all flat file too?)

2. Why are you choosing to include flat php files over doing a database lookup?

1: I've been coding in PHP for about 3/4 years now, as i said its just an idea, haven't started coding yet.
No i cant see the security risks straight off hence why i'm asking for feedback before i did any coding.
Wrote all the code for ign.ie myself.

2: The only info in the 'source' files would be the body layout of each page and then there would be calls to sql queries in another file for the DB.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Forbairt

Madness :| of a sorts ..

Why the urge to do it this way ?

Just an idea.

wheres me jumpa · #5 (**permalink**) 14-02-2008, 03:12 PM

If you were going to go this route, I would make the URLs more seo friendly. i.e. have a more descriptive term in the PID variable.

ziycon · #6 (**permalink**) 14-02-2008, 03:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wheres me jumpa

If you were going to go this route, I would make the URLs more seo friendly. i.e. have a more descriptive term in the PID variable.

Of course, i'll use mod_rewrite to change the URLs.

Just wanted to get some feedback on the up sides and down sides of this or if there was any better way to structure the site to decrease space and run time with the code.

louie · #7 (**permalink**) 14-02-2008, 03:35 PM

Your question doesn't make any sense to me.
You want to structure the pages based on folders but you want to pass the folder name by QS in the url?
Why?... when you just add the folder name like this: http://www.site.com/folder_name/

inside the folder you have your index.php file that will load as default.

If you don't want to give the original folder name you can use .htaccess to rewrite the path http://www.site.com/keywords_stuffed_name/ -> http://www.site.com/folder_name/

Does that sounds more like it?

ziycon · #8 (**permalink**) 14-02-2008, 03:53 PM

I've attached an image on the structure im asking about.

Basiclly someone will go to the index.php?PID=news and then it will call a function from the news.php file in the source folder that has the layout for the news page, the news.php page will call queries in the sql.php file to retrieve relevant data from the DB to populate the page.

Get me??

louie · #9 (**permalink**) 14-02-2008, 04:02 PM

I do get you but you're really going to open yourself to attacks by using this type of query:

index.php?PID=news

using mode rewrite is a lot safer.
There is nothing wrong with this structure if it's done right.

ziycon · #10 (**permalink**) 14-02-2008, 04:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by louie

I do get you but you're really going to open yourself to attacks by using this type of query:

index.php?PID=news

using mode rewrite is a lot safer.
There is nothing wrong with this structure if it's done right.

I will be using mod_rewrite but just to explain how i was intending in laying out the structure i posted the above link.
it'll actually show up like http://www.site.com/news.htm instead of http://www.site.com/index.pgp?PID=news

Also i was thinking of maybe checking the PID parameter againest a table in the DB and if it exists then it'll load the relevant page or else it'll load an error page.

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