Drew C King

I’ve been using Comb with a few more projects recently. The main point of Comb is to structure the code in such a way that the request handlers get accessed directly via Apache, as opposed to rewriting the entire URL, and making PHP dynamically include or instantiate a request handling class (i.e. Action, Command, etc).

For example, you might have a registration form that is accessed like this (pseudo-HTTP):

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# display the registration page...
GET  /register.php
 
# registration form submits to...
POST /proc_register.php

I personally hate that naming convention because it reminds me of how I wrote code 5 years ago, and it’s just plain ugly.

Here’s a cleaner, friendlier approach that I’d rather use:

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# display the registration page...
GET  /register
 
# registration form submits to...
POST /register

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I’ve decided to give a name to this barebones framework that I’ve been playing with for the past couple of months. I’m calling it Comb. Unfortunately it takes a long time to fully explain the thinking behind the name. Similar to Camber, however, the jist of it is simplicity; think “get the tangles out of my code”. Plus comb is a lot faster to say and type than MVCish-framework-based-on-autoprependfile-and-output-buffering.

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