7 March 2006
Simple Commandline Debugging Fragment
One advantage the page=verb Model 1 style of coding has is that its much easier to debug. Want to know if a page works? Just access it.
So all of the sudden in Model 2, you run php controller.php or whatever. Great. Now what? How to you check if it can correctly spit out the filterlist action on user names beginning with F?
Turns out to be a two-liner.
/* populate REQUEST with key value pairs from command line */
for ($x = 2; $x + 1
Now you can run php controller.php — action FilterList filter f and $_REQUEST will look like array (”action” => “FilterList”, “filter” => “f”);