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!
