Controller (#1389042) · Issues · project / projectapplications

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>>> [!note] Migrated issue   Reported by: [hinikato](https://www.drupal.org/user/680524) >>> <h3>Update: this project has moved to full drupal project!</h3> <a href="http://drupal.org/project/controller">http://drupal.org/project/controller</a> - new project location. Thanks for all who reviewed it! <h3>Description</h3> Controller is module that enables Page Controller pattern for your pages. Page Controller is just class that have set of actions. Each action is a separate method that will be called for specified path. For example if you have the 'foo/bar' path (URI), then you can create a new class called FooBarPageController and myAction method (you can use other names of course). This method will be called for the '<a href="http://host/foo/bar">http://host/foo/bar</a>' address. <h3>Example</h3> Let's say that you have the 'mymodule' module and you want to call the FooBarPageController::myAction() method for the 'foo/bar' path. To do that do the following: 1. Create new directory mymodule/controllers/. 2. Create new file called FooBarPageController.php inside this directory. 3. Add the following code into it: <div class="codeblock"> <pre><?php /**  * My test controller class.  */ class MymoduleFooBarPageController {   /**    * This method that will be called for the 'foo/bar' path.    *    * @path => 'foo/bar',    * @access arguments => array('access arguments'),    * @title => 'My test page',    */   function myAction() {     return sprintf('<pre>%s</pre>', __METHOD__ . ' called with args: '       . print_r(func_get_args(), 1));   } } ?></pre></div> Please note your attention on the following concepts: - The module name is 'mymodule' and the Controller class should be prefixed with the CamelCased version of the module name with capital first latter. For our example it is 'Mymodule' prefix. If the 'controller_use_ns' variable is on (that you can change on the '/admin/settings/controller' page) the prefix will be used as namespace, so the the full class name will be \Mymodule\FooBarPageController. - In the annotations (PHP comments) for the myAction() method we defined items like @path, @access arguments and the @title. You can define other items that can be defined in the hook_menu() and that described here: <a href="http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/developer!hooks!core.php/function/hook_menu/6">http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/developer!hooks!core.php/function/hook_menu/6</a> It is the @title callback, @title arguments, @description, @page arguments etc. There is the only one new item @path that inroduced by the 'controller' module. The value of the each item is PHP code that can optionally end with the ; or , character (it may be useful if you have a habit to enter them inside your PHP code). 4. Define the hook_controller_api() as follows: <div class="codeblock"> <pre><?php /**  * Implements hook_controller_api().  */ function mymodule_controller_api() {   return '2.x'; } ?></pre></div> 5. After that clear the menu cache and navigate the 'foo/bar' path in your browser. Then you will see that the MymoduleFooBarPageController::myAction() will be called. 6. Format of the annotations is very simple: just not add the quotes ('') for key and add the @ before it. For example the: <div class="codeblock"> <pre><?php 'page arguments' => array('foo' => 'bar'), ?></pre></div> may be rewritten with PHP comments as follows: <div class="codeblock"> <pre><?php /**  * @page arguments => array('foo' => 'bar'),  */ ?></pre></div> Each line may optionally end with the semicolon (;) or comma (,). <h3>Other way to define your controllers</h3> There is an other way that can be used to define your controllers. For example above the FooBarPageController::myAction() method can be defined in the hook_menu() as follows: <div class="codeblock"> <pre><?php /**  * @file  * Your description...  */ /**  * Your implementation of the hook_menu();  */ function mymodule_menu() {   $items = array();   $items['foo/bar'] = array(     'action' => 'FooBarPageController::myAction',     'access arguments' => array('access content'),     'type' => MENU_CALLBACK,   );   return $items; } ?></pre></div> In this definition please note on the new 'action' key. It is a special item that will be handled by the controller module. There is no 'path' item here because the path defined as array key. <h3>How it works?</h3> In case of defining the menu items through annotations the 'controller' module will collect and parse the annotations and rewrite them with using of the new 'action' item. After that the 'controller' module will expand the 'action' definition into other item that follows Drupal's conventions. For example the following definition: <div class="codeblock"> <pre><?php /**  * Your implementation of the hook_menu();  */ function mymodule_menu() {   $items = array();   $items['foo/bar'] = array(     'action' => 'FooBarPageController::myAction',     'access arguments' => array('access content'),     'type' => MENU_CALLBACK,   );   return $items; } ?></pre></div> will be expanded to the following definition: <div class="codeblock"> <pre><?php /**  * Your implementation of the hook_menu();  */ function mymodule_menu() {   $items = array();   $my_file_path = drupal_get_path('module', 'mymodule')     . '/controllers/FooBarPageController.php';   $items['foo/bar'] = array(     'page callback' => 'controller_menu_handler',     'page arguments' => array('MymoduleFooBarPageController::myAction'),     'file' => $my_file_path,     'access arguments' => array('access content'),     'type' => MENU_CALLBACK,   );   return $items; } ?></pre></div> When the 'foo/bar' path will be navigated the 'controller_menu_handler' function will be called when in turns will create an instance of the MymoduleFooBarPageController and will call the myAction() method. <h3>Links</h3> 1. <a rel="nofollow" href="http://drupal.org/sandbox/hinikato/1389028">Sandbox link</a>

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