[Catalyst] website member urls

[John Romkey]

On Apr 29, 2009, at 4:52 PM, Charles wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 05:31:43PM -0300, Fernan Aguero wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Charles <cshtreck at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > I'd like someone w/ better catalyst-fu to recommend how I could  
> implement
> > > urls for members a la myspace and youtube ( ie
> > >  http://websiteurl.com/ ) .
> > > There's got to be a better way that creating a seperate  
> controller for each
> > > user.
> >
> > sub member : Regex('\S+') {
> >  my ($self, $c) = @_;
>
> Using Regex for that seems weird to me.
>
>   sub member : Chained(/) Args(1) {
>     my ($self, $c, $id) = @_;
>     ...
>   }
> hans,
>
> This seems to work, although, i'd have to add logic to have this  
> member controller  ignore the following types of urls
>
> http://websiteurl.com/signup
> http://websiteurl.com/members/ <= users see this as their url when  
> logged in.

Not at all. You just add handlers for those URLs to your controller;  
they're more specific than the member handler and should match.

sub signup : Chained('/') PathPart('signup') Args(0) {
...
}

Are you sure you want to layout your URLs that way, though? You'll  
*never* need other top level items that might conflict with user  
names? If you put all the users under /user (or something like that)  
then they're in their own namespace and you won't have problems with  
name conflicts.
	- john romkey
	http://www.romkey.com/

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