Nigel Hardy wrote:
(Sorry if this is a Cocoon Q. really, but I am working in Forrest and
similar issues arise here from time to time)
I can happily skin the output of php scripts using redirect-to, the
FileGenerator etc. as suggested in the Cocoon documentation and at
various times on this list. That works just fine for me. Unfortunately,
some of the php scripts I want to use like this take query parts in the
URL to set parameters. I can't see how to get hold of those in a matcher
or selector. I can catch "this/that/theother.php" and skin it, but how
do I get hold of the parameter from "this/that/theother.php?var=42" to
feed that to the FileGenerator?
Help appreciated.
If you are planning on using Forrest to generate static content from
these PHP scripts I'm afraid you can't. The problem is that '?' is not a
valid character in filenames. Cocoon therefore rewrites such URLs with
an '_', which then breaks any static links to that page.
If you intend to use Forrest in dynamic mode then you have no problem.
How? Well, as you say this is a Cocoon question, so best place to look
is the Cocoon docs. See below for some starting options. Which is right
for you depends on your use case, but given your question I think the
RequestModule is what you need. Basically, just do {request:PARAM-NAME}:
One of the RequestModules [1]
The request selector [2]
The request generator [3]
Ross
[1] http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/userdocs/concepts/modules-ref.html
[2] http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/userdocs/requestparameter-selector.html
[3] http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/userdocs/request-generator.html
