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PHP Building Websites with PHP Contact Form & Sending Email Named Routes

cynnimon
cynnimon
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Posted by cynnimon
cynnimon
4,001 Points

How does "baseUrl()" know which page is the home page?

Hi, I'm confused how baseUrl() knew to serve the about.twig page. I thought it was the naming 'home' method, but after changing those around it had no effect. Does it just look through the Templates folder and pick the first file by alphabetical order?

2 Answers

Luksy Breezy
Luksy Breezy
268 Points
Luksy Breezy
Luksy Breezy
268 Points

consider this function.

function getPageName () { return basename($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME']); }

$page = getPageName();

echo $page;

it will always return the name of the current page u are on.

carlos tighe
carlos tighe
261 Points
carlos tighe
carlos tighe
261 Points

You need to check the source code of Slim Views to find this out. Having done that you will see that baseUrl() is mapped to the "/" route. ie 

    $app->get("/", function() {});     //this is your baseUrl