URL Object

[grosfaignan]

hi

i would to suggest to wordpress to build a wordpress URL_Object who implement url distribution logic like theses.

example : this url : " ​http://localhost/author/admin/ ”

{
    base_url : http://localhost/author/admin/
    protocol : http
    root : localhost
    full_path:author/admin/
    template : author.php
    /**...some stuff*/
    {child
        path:author
        path_type:users_list
        {child
            path:admin
            path_type:user_name
            {user_object:WP_user
                /*...data from WP_user*/
            }
        }
    }
}

another example with this url : “ ​http://localhost/2021/10/20/my_comment/ "(a comment url)

{
    base_url : http://localhost/2021/10/20/my_comment/
    protocol : http
    root : localhost
    full_path:2021/10/20/my_comment/
    template : comments.php
    /**...some stuff*/
    {child
        path:2021
        path_type:date(year)
        {child
            path:10
            path_type:date(month)
            {child
                path:20
                path_type:date(day)
                {comment_object:WP_Comment
                    /*...data from WP_Comment like*/
                    comment_ID:""
                    comment_post_ID :""
                    comment_author :""
                    comment_author_email :""
                    /***...and more */
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

another example with this url : ​http://localhost/vehicle/car/

{
    base_url : http://localhost/vehicle/car/
    protocol : http
    root : localhost
    full_path:vehicle/car/
    template : category.php
    /**...some stuff*/
    {child
        path:vehicle
        path_type:category
        parent_category:none
        {child
            path:car
            path_type:category
            parent_category:vehicle
            {object_array
                /*...listed object for this category*/
                {object_1:car_with_4_wheels
                     /*object fields and data */
                    color:""
                    wheels:""
                    type:""
                    motor:""
                    gear_ratio:""
                    /**...and more*/
                }
                {object_2:car_with_3_wheels}
                {object_3:car_with_5_wheels}

                /***...and more */
            }
        }
    }
}

the underlying idea is to give us the possibility to know where url part come from, to make more flexible and logic routing.

to explain a little bit my purpose , we will move to : ​http://localhost/vehicle/car/my_black_car_with_four_wheels

we can get this object :

{
    base_url : http://localhost/vehicle/car/
    protocol : http
    root : localhost
    full_path:vehicle/car/
    template : category.php
    /**...some stuff*/
    {child
        path:vehicle
        path_type:category
        parent_category:none
        {child
            path:car
            path_type:category
            parent_category:vehicle
            {object:car_object
                /*object fields and data */
                color:black
                wheels:4
                type:sportive
                motor:950ch
                gear_ratio:6
                /**...and more*/
            }
        }
    }
}

in addition, the possibilites to create wordpress routing from this object will be a good idea. i'll try to give you an example : we want to create a user car space with this url format :
​http://localhost/user/vehicle/cars

/**first we will create this object*/
$my_url_object = new url_object(/${root}/${users}/${category:vehicle}/${category:cars});

this action will instantiate the url object and the routing logic at the same time, so we will get this url_object

{
    base_url : http://localhost/user/vehicle/car
    protocol : http (will depends form the server config)
    root : localhost
    template : ""
    /**...some stuff*/
    {child
        path:user
        {user_object:WP_user
            /**data from WP_user */
            data:""
            ID:""
            caps:""
            roles:""
            /**... and more */
        }
        {child
            path:vehicle
            {category_object : vehicle
                /**data from vehicle object */
            }
            {child
                path:car
                {category_object:car
                    /**data from car object */
                    /**for example:*/
                    color:""
                    wheels:""
                    type:""
                    wheels_size:""
                    motor:""
                    gear_ratio:""
                    /**...and more*/
                }
            }
        }

    }
    
}

the only last thing we have to do is to decide which template will be used:

$my_url_object->set_template(user_car.php)

[SergeyBiryukov]

Hi there, welcome back to WordPress Trac! Thanks for the ticket.

Just linking to some potentially related tickets here: #12935, #18276, #36292, #41145.

[grosfaignan]

the actual problem in wordpress is when we catch any url, we can't know how it was build by wordpress-core.
by the way, if we catch an url like " ​http://localhost/supersonic " we can use this url to make a real routing, because we don't know how wordpress have build it,so we can't know if " /supersonic" refer to a user_name, tu a user_product, to a category, or to any other item.

so if we could have an object ready to explain url building process by wordpress. we could catch referent data more efficiently

convertly if in the url object we could get something like:

/**...*/
path: "supersonic" => refer_to: WP_user //for example

we could make routing more efficiently