Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 07/04/07 03:07

TATrader wrote:
> Dearest Colleagues,
>
> I was suddenly having a sharp pain in locating information about a
> design capability in PHP that exists in Java servlets.
>
> In Java, I can preprocess, via a filter, some HTTP requests before
> answering to the client. Please allow me to show and example since it
> will illustrate the point well.
>
> User types: http://domain.com/myapp/restofpath.html
> In a Java servlet, there exists a web-app which maps /myapp/* to a
> cookie checking filter before routing it to restofpath.html.
>
> Of course, the filter could do many other actions, so the method of
> interest here is whether there is any similar thing that may be
> achieved with PHP? Also if anyone knows what it would be called I'd
> appreciate, so web searches turn up better results to me.
>
> So it boils down to, in PHP how can I route all paths matching a
> pattern to a PHP script prior to them serving the page immediately?
> the end result is not a single script, however I'd like all the
> requests to go through a single script prior to hitting the resulting
> page.
>
> User types: http://domain.com/myapp/restofpath.html
> User types: http://domain.com/myapp/adifferentpath.html
> User types: http://domain.com/myapp/garycoleman.html
>
> The objective would be to route all these through myfilter.php to pre-
> process the request (and maybe do things like cookie processing, page
> view counters, and http header info)
>
> Thank you for your time and thoughts!
>

You can't. All you can do is include the code in the appropriate files.

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