I've done exactly this for a project. It isnt ideal in that if you have a live system, and you subsequently need to add controllers, you need to check that *existing* users havent already used that controller name.
Net framework programmer
· 1 year ago
hello,
how i can route to main page without using MVC (We are using System.Web.Routing assembly)
Emad Ibrahim
· 1 year ago
@Nik, you are absolutely right which is why I force user names to be 4 characters or longer. This way, worst-case-scenario, I can create a 3 letter controller. Not ideal, but a workaround.
Emad Ibrahim
· 1 year ago
@Net framework programmer, I am not sure how to do that. I haven't used the routing library with non-MVC projects. Good luck and let us know what you find out.
Have you thought about what happens if you decide to create a controller which happens to be the same as a user's name?!
I'm not sure this is a very future-proof way of working...
eibrahim
· 1 year ago
You are absolutely right but I have worked around that by forcing users to use usernames with 6 or more characters and I also keep track of a list of banned usernames in the config file e.g. administrator, account, etc... It is not perfect but it works otherwise, you will be stuck with URLs that look like /user/eibrahim instead of just /eibrahim
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how i can route to main page without using MVC (We are using System.Web.Routing assembly)
Read this http://chriscavanagh.wordpress.com/2008/03/11/a... for routing with Web Forms
I'm not sure this is a very future-proof way of working...
use usernames with 6 or more characters and I also keep track of a list of
banned usernames in the config file e.g. administrator, account, etc...
It is not perfect but it works otherwise, you will be stuck with URLs that
look like /user/eibrahim instead of just /eibrahim