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

mysite/code/Controllers/FastFood.php

:::php
<?php

class FastFood_Controller extends Controller {
    public function order($arguments) {
        print_r($arguments);
    }
}

?>

mysite/_config.php

:::php
Director::addRules(50, array('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 _config.php 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 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]

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