Controller Subdirectories Proposal - Jeroen Keppens

Zend_Controller_Dispatcher
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In smal projects the current directory structure for controllers is sufficient. For bigger projects however, it might be useful to use subdirectories to group together certain functonalities for clarity reasons.
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* KISS
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{zone-data:dependencies}
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Currently the controller in the url can't have underscores (they are filtered out). This change would keep underscores in place and replace spaces into underscores. The Zend::loadClass has to be adjusted as well so it can use subdirectories when the dirs parameter is not null.
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* Zend
* Zend_Controller_Dispatcher
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Suppose one of the parts of your website is a Forum, then you could have following urls:

forum_topic/list
forum_topic/add
forum_topic/edit
forum_topic/delete

forum_post/list
forum_post/rate
forum_post/view
forum_post/add
forum_post/edit
forum_post/delete

etc...

This would yield in following files

/application/controllers/Forum/TopicController.php => Class Forum_TopicController
/application/controllers/Forum/PostController.php => Class Forum_PostController

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Zend.php : lijn 84, change:
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$file = $class . '.php';
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to:
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if ($path != $class) {
$dirs.= DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.dirname($path);
$file = basename($path) . '.php';
} else {
$file = $class . '.php';
}
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Zend/Controller/Dispatcher.php: lijn 167, added:

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$className = str_replace("_", DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR, $className);
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Zend/Controller/Dispatcher.php: lijn 91, change
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protected function _formatName($unformatted)

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to:
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protected function _formatName($unformatted)

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