[tydeas_dr]

NOTICE: I am not referring to cUrl but a Url object
Hello ppl,
Do you think it would be nice to introduce a Url object in the yii 2.0. This would be used internally in CUrlManager and CHttpRequest but it would hold the logic and functionality around urls like:
- Creating a PATH or GET url ( currently in CUrlManager )
- Be able to getRequestUri from a url ( part of the CHttpRequest ), so people would be able to handle url with common Yii functions.
Please let me know what you think about it. It's just a draft thought.
Friendly and geeky.

[phpnode]

Why? What does it offer that parse_url() doesn't?

[tydeas_dr]

It's only about parsing but also generating urls. And no, I would prefer something more DRY.

[Da:Sourcerer]

Dunno, something's telling me that weren't such a good idea. I clearly see how you got there, but it doesn't feel right.

I'm currently experimenting with phpnode's work on a CHttpResponse class and had about the same idea. I left the URLs as strings eventualy. It looked a lot like bloat to me. And ... yeah, well, what phpnode said: There's always parse_url().

[tydeas_dr]

Again, It's not about parsing url. It's about generating url as well.
I want to consume an api that has PATH format instead of GET. So I have 'http://some.api.com/' and an array like array('user'=>1) where 1 the id of the user. How can I create it ? Of course there is a php way but wouldn't be nice to be able to have a yii premade infastructure for this stuff?

[Da:Sourcerer]

Sounds more like you'd want an enhanced version of CUrlManager.createUrl(). Still don't see the need for a CUrl class.

[tydeas_dr]

It's more likely that the CUrlManager has to do with your application urls and not a third party service urls.

[Da:Sourcerer]

As is, yes. But it could surely be enhanced to craft URLs for other sites as well. By the way: Zend Framework has a support class for URIs.

[tydeas_dr]

I would really did not want to mix up this 2, this is why I mentioned creating this object to handle the urls and the urlmanager will use this object internally for the application urls.

[Da:Sourcerer]

But then you're still mixing this?

Anyway, I might have actually found a purpose for this class: It could be useful if you want to add/remove GET-params dynamicaly from a URL.

[Da:Sourcerer]

Just for reference: Horde_Url is doing that.

[tydeas_dr]

@Da:Sourcerer, I am pretty sure more use cases will appear if more people get involved in the converstation.

[Ben]

Also for reference: http://qt-project.or...t-4.8/QUrl.html

Eye-catching from the API: Support for port, userinfo (both missing in horde_url) and a whole lot seems to be about encoding.

For a recent project, I searched a way to transform a relative URL into an absolute one. Think this would be another candidate for such a class. In the end, I used this: http://sourceforge.n...ts/absoluteurl/

[Jaggi]

tydeas_dr, on 30 April 2012 - 07:57 AM, said:

Again, It's not about parsing url. It's about generating url as well.
I want to consume an api that has PATH format instead of GET. So I have 'http://some.api.com/' and an array like array('user'=>1) where 1 the id of the user. How can I create it ? Of course there is a php way but wouldn't be nice to be able to have a yii premade infastructure for this stuff?

whats wrong with create url function?

$this->createUrl();

[tydeas_dr]

Jaggi, on 01 May 2012 - 03:38 AM, said:

whats wrong with create url function?

$this->createUrl();

As I said before

$this->createUrl()

( God knows what $this refers to ) has to do with your Yii Application urls and not third party urls like REST service that you want to consume.