HTTP-Request to call on a module and pass a parameter

Friday 06 October 2006 7:40:25 am

Hi!

I need to dynamicly create a URL that is structured like so:

www.testing.com/mymodule/parameter
or www.testing.com/mymodule?=parameter (or some variation of that)
(eventually more than one parameter)

I need a HTTP-Request made to that URL to call up a module and give it said parameter.
Later i will have to use the parameter.

How can I do that?
THANKS!!!

Friday 06 October 2006 8:14:24 am

Hi Daniel

Have a look at the way EZ manages system urls
http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/technical_manual/3_8/concepts_and_basics/url_translation

and custom view parameters
http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/technical_manual/3_8/concepts_and_basics/modules_and_views

Greetings fromLuxembourg

Claudia

Friday 06 October 2006 10:46:30 am

Hi Daniel

Unless I understand you totally wrong this is exactly what view parameters are doing.
The only problem might be that you would have a view in your url, something like this:
www.testing.com/mymodule/myview/parameter

Your view (which the module.php maps to an script) has access to $Params which contains the parameters.
To have ordered parameters you need to specify their name(s) in the module.php in your extension.
Example:
$ViewList["main"] = array('script' => 'main.php', 'params' => array('rootNodeID'));

So I could call up the view main of my extension myextension like this:
www.example.com/index.php/myextension/main/42

Here the view main calls up a script main.php which can access the passed value 42 by using $Params['rootNodeID']. The script main is a normal php file which is then responsible for calling a template or forwarding to another view.

To access post variables you could use plain $_POST or, using the EZ tools:

include_once( "lib/ezutils/classes/ezhttptool.php" );
$http =& eZHTTPTool::instance();
else if ( $http->hasPostVariable( "foo" ) )
{
    $foo= $http->postVariable( "foo);
}

Greetings from Luxembourg

Claudia