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# Controller
Base controller class. You will extend this to take granular control over the
actions and url handling of aspects of your SilverStripe site.
## Example
The following example is for a simple `[api:Controller]` class. If you're using
the cms module and looking at Page_Controller instances you won't need to setup
your own routes since the cms module handles these routes.
`mysite/code/Controllers/FastFood.php`
:::php
<?php
class FastFood_Controller extends Controller {
public function order($arguments) {
print_r($arguments);
}
}
`mysite/_config/routes.yml`
:::yaml
---
Name: myroutes
After: framework/routes#coreroutes
---
Director:
2012-12-06 20:15:53 +01:00
rules:
'fastfood/$Action/$ID/$Name': 'FastFood_Controller'
Request for `/fastfood/order/24/cheesefries` would result in the following to
the $arguments above. If needed, use `?flush=1` on the end of request after
making any code changes to your controller.
:::ss
Array
(
[Action] => order
[ID] => 24
[Name] => cheesefries
)
## URL Handling
In the above example the URLs were configured using the `[api:Director]` rules
in the **routes.yml** file. Alternatively you can specify these in your
Controller class via the **$url_handlers** static array (which gets processed
by the `[api:RequestHandler]`).
This is useful when you want to subvert the fixed action mapping of `fastfood/order/*`
to the function **order**. In the case below we also want any orders coming
through `/fastfood/drivethrough/` to use the same order function.
`mysite/code/Controllers/FastFood.php`
:::php
class FastFood_Controller extends Controller {
public static $url_handlers = array(
'drivethrough/$Action/$ID/$Name' => 'order'
);
## URL Patterns
The `[api:RequestHandler]` class will parse all rules you specify against the
following patterns.
**A rule must always start with alphabetical ([A-Za-z]) characters or a $Variable
declaration**
| Pattern | Description |
| ----------- | --------------- |
| `$` | **Param Variable** - Starts the name of a paramater variable, it is optional to match this unless ! is used |
| `!` | **Require Variable** - Placing this after a parameter variable requires data to be present for the rule to match |
| `//` | **Shift Point** - Declares that only variables denoted with a $ are parsed into the $params AFTER this point in the regex |
## Examples
See maetl's article in the Links below of a detailed explanation.
`$Action/$ID/$OtherID` - Standard URL handler for a Controller. Take whatever `URLSegment` it is set to, find
the Action to match a function in the controller, and parse two optional `$param` variables that will be named `ID` and
`OtherID`.
`admin/help//$Action/$ID` - Match an url starting with `/admin/help/`, but don't include `/help/` as part of the
action (the shift point is set to start parsing variables and the appropriate controller action AFTER the `//`)
`tag/$Tag!` - Match an URL starting with `/tag/` after the controller's `URLSegment` and require it to have something
after it. If the URLSegment is **order** then `/order/tag/34` and `/order/tag/asdf` match but `/order/tag/` will not
You can use the `debug_request=1` switch from the [urlvariabletools](/reference/urlvariabletools) to see these in action.
## Redirection
Controllers facilitate HTTP redirection.
Note: These methods have been formerly located on the `[api:Director]` class.
* `redirect("action-name")`: If there's no slash in the URL passed to redirect, then it is assumed that you want to go to a different action on the current controller.
* `redirect("relative/url")`: If there is a slash in the URL, it's taken to be a normal URL. Relative URLs
will are assumed to be relative to the site-root.
* `redirect("http://www.absoluteurl.com")`: Of course, you can pass `redirect()` absolute URLs too.
* `redirectBack()`: This will return you to the previous page.
The `redirect()` method takes an optional HTTP status code,
either `301` for permanent redirects, or `302` for temporary redirects (default).
## API Documentation
`[api:Controller]`
## Links
* `[api:Director]` class
* [execution-pipeline](/reference/execution-pipeline)
* [URL Handling in Controllers](http://maetl.net/silverstripe-url-handling) by maetl