Jon Wage and Bulat were speaking about this on our way to the NY meetup last night. Makes a lot of sense, and having a delimiter on both ends of the variable sounds very robust. Also doesn't hurt that it's a standard already :)
While the newness of it might confuse Symfony1 folks, I think the resemblance to Twig will help smooth that over. On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Fabien Potencier < [email protected]> wrote: > The current implementation of the routing uses a colon (':') as a delimiter > for placeholders in patterns: > > /article/:id > > This convention was already used in symfony1 and comes from the Ruby world > (where :something has a meaning.) > > But, :something has no special meaning in PHP and so, this is just a > convention. > > I propose to use the "URI template" notation instead: > > http://code.google.com/p/uri-templates/ > http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-gregorio-uritemplate-04 > > The above example would be written like this: > > /article/{id} > > It does not make sense to implement the whole specification in our context, > and so I'm just proposing to use the same conventions described in the > specification. > > For instance, we can probably also implement the default value: > > /article/{id=1} > > Fabien > > -- > Fabien Potencier > Sensio CEO - symfony lead developer > sensiolabs.com | symfony-project.org | fabien.potencier.org > Tél: +33 1 40 99 80 80 > > -- > If you want to report a vulnerability issue on symfony, please send it to > security at symfony-project.com > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "symfony developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<symfony-devs%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-devs?hl=en > -- jeremy mikola -- If you want to report a vulnerability issue on symfony, please send it to security at symfony-project.com You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-devs?hl=en
