$conf = array('domain' => array(), 'api' => array('nohtml' => 'true'), 'tools' => array('static' => 'tools.html', 'title' => 'Tools'), 'faq' => array('static' => 'faq.html', 'title' => 'FAQ'), 'apidoc' => array('static' => 'apidoc.html', 'title' => 'API Docs'), 'home' => array('static' => 'home.html', 'title' => 'Whomsy')); // make sense of the request $url = parse_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']); if (empty($_REQUEST) && !empty($url['query'])) { // dreamhost quirk with phpcgi parse_str($url['query'], $_REQUEST); } $url = $url['path']; $self = dirname($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']); if ($self !== '/') { // app not in the server root $url = str_replace($self, '', $url); $self = $self . '/'; } $url = ltrim($url, '/'); $request = explode('/', $url); if (!in_array($request[0], array_keys($conf))) { $request[0] = 'home'; } // define useful constants define('HOME', $self); define('PAGEID', $request[0]); // the requested page define('DOMAIN', !empty($_REQUEST['domain']) ? $_REQUEST['domain'] : @$request[1]); // domain, if any $conf = $conf[PAGEID]; // config for the requested page // the "business" logic $data = WhomsyModel::getData($conf, DOMAIN); // render the view WhomsyView::render($data, $conf);