Fun with ones and zeros - php /blog/tags/php Wed, 17 Jun 2026 04:02:59 -0700 Named routes in Laravel 4 /blog/entries/named-routes-laravel-4 Sat, 26 Jan 2013 14:51:00 -0800 bp@barryp.org (Barry Pederson)

I've been doing some work with PHP & Laravel 4, and had an idea to make naming routes a bit nicer syntactically. Currently, to name a route you wrap the 2nd parameter in an array and add an item with an 'as' key, as in:

Route::get('user/profile', array('as' => 'profile', function(){// code here..}));

I think it'd be more natural to set the name using a method on the route (similar to adding a where() condition) , something like:

Route::get('user/profile', function(){// code here..})
    ->named('profile');

After a bit of poking around, I found this could be done fairly easily with a couple small additions to Route and Router to allow for renaming a route:

--- a/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php Fri Jan 25 15:35:04 2013 -0600
+++ b/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Route.php Sat Jan 26 16:37:08 2013 -0600
@@ -411,4 +411,16 @@
                return $this;
        }

-}
+    /**
+     * Change the name for this route.
+     *
+     * @param string $name New Name
+     * @return Illuminate\Routing\Route
+     */
+    public function named($name)
+    {
+        $this->router->rename($this, $name);
+
+        return $this;
+    }
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff -r 50adf81e2f0f vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Router.php
--- a/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Router.php        Fri Jan 25 15:35:04 2013 -0600
+++ b/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Router.php        Sat Jan 26 16:37:08 2013 -0600
@@ -1159,4 +1159,21 @@
                $this->container = $container;
        }

+    /**
+     * Change the name of a route
+     *
+     * @param $route
+     * @param $name
+     * @return void
+     */
+    public function rename($route, $name)
+    {
+        foreach($this->routes->getIterator() as $n => $r) {
+            if ($r === $route) {
+                $this->routes->remove($n);
+                $this->routes->add($name, $r);
+                return;
+            }
+        }
+    }
 }

It's not the most efficient thing in the world to be iterating over all the previous routes. A small optimization would be to check the last-added route first, in the example usage that'd be the one you're renaming. But to do that would require also patching Symfony's RouteCollection class.

]]> Building additional PHP modules on OSX /blog/entries/building-additional-php-modules-osx Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:09:00 -0800 bp@barryp.org (Barry Pederson)

Normally I try to avoid dealing with PHP if at all possible, but there is now a PHP port of py-amqplib called php-amqplib, and I offered to help out with it a bit. Maybe partially out of guilt for having written the mess of Python code it was based on :)

I thought it would be handy to work on it using my MacBook. OS X 10.5 (Leopard) has PHP 5.2.6 built in standard, but unfortunately it doesn't have the bcmath extension included, which php-amqplib makes use of. Turns out building the module wasn't that difficult. This page got me going - although building bcmath was much simpler. Since I had the Apple Developer Tools for 10.5 installed, it was just a matter of ...

And then edit /etc/php.ini to make these two changes:

--- php.ini.default     2008-07-15 14:19:15.000000000 -0500
+++ php.ini     2008-12-08 21:44:52.000000000 -0600
@@ -483,7 +483,7 @@
 user_dir =

 ; Directory in which the loadable extensions (modules) reside.
-extension_dir = "./"
+;extension_dir = "./"

 ; Whether or not to enable the dl() function.  The dl() function does NOT work
 ; properly in multithreaded servers, such as IIS or Zeus, and is automatically
@@ -595,6 +595,7 @@
 ; needs to go here.  Specify the location of the extension with the
 ; extension_dir directive above.

+extension=bcmath.so

 ; Windows Extensions
 ; Note that ODBC support is built in, so no dll is needed for it.

After that, I was able to run the amqp_test.php file for the first time, sending a message and receiving it in py-amqplib's demo/demo_receive.py

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