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Better Phalcon Naming ?

Why all the complexity added ? Why not naming everything simpler in Phalcon ? Can't we have a choice to do this simpler ?

Original:

<?php

use Phalcon\Mvc\Controller;

class PostsController extends Controller

Request:

<?php

use Phalcon\Mvc\Controller;

class Posts extends Controller

You can simply lookup "Controller" after extends instead of having to append "Controller". Maybe even remove the need to use "use Phalcon\Mvc\Controller;" if nothing else used.

Same goes can be used for functions;

Original:

public function saveAction() {}

Request:

public function save() {}

You can simply lookup "function" instead of "Action" internnally.

Also, why are we forced to use controllers like "NameController" why not simply "Name.php" in /controllers/ folder.

Or even better if used with namespaces, folder stracture like; /App/Controllers/Name.php same goes for models like /App/Models/Name.php etc...



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You can remove those suffix in the dispatcher:

see setActionSuffix



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@ Andres, could you give an example ? Thank you.



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When registering the dispatcher service set the suffix to "":

<?php

use Phalcon\Mvc\Dispatcher as MvcDispatcher;

//...

$di->set(
    'dispatcher',
    function () {
        $dispatcher = new MvcDispatcher();
        $dispatcher->setActionSuffix("");
        $dispatcher->setDefaultNamespace('Phosphorum\Controllers');
        return $dispatcher;
    },
    true
);


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edited Apr '15

This will work for "NameController" and "nameAction" or just "Actions" on functions ? I think this should be a default, and if people need suffix they can append it. Right now its the other way around. Because having anything empty is just makes another useless line of code.



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Accepted
answer

Both of them, this way:

<?php

use Phalcon\Mvc\Dispatcher as MvcDispatcher;

//...

$di->set(
    'dispatcher',
    function () {
        $dispatcher = new MvcDispatcher();
        $dispatcher->setControllerSuffix("");       
        $dispatcher->setActionSuffix("");
        $dispatcher->setDefaultNamespace('Phosphorum\Controllers');
        return $dispatcher;
    },
    true
);


7.7k
edited Apr '15

Thank you for the example this is great work-around.

EDIT: I've also created a github issue for this @ https://github.com/phalcon/cphalcon/issues/10121

Thank you for the workarounds "Andres Gutierrez" this is great find :-)



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edited Apr '15

in my opinion I don't think is a good idea to remove the suffix. This way you can see right away what is an action, what is a normal function and what is a simple class or a controller. Also there might be problems with class collisions



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in reply to Tux

he pretty much wrote the whole thing :P

Thank you for the example this is great work-around.

EDIT: I've also created a github issue for this @ https://github.com/phalcon/cphalcon/issues/10121

Thank you for the workarounds "Andres Gutierrez" this is great find :-)