Rewrite PHP URL for Node.js

Question

I need to rewrite this URL with Node:

/single.php?articleID=123

to this:

/article/123

This is because a company I work with already printed out QR codes with said URL for the old software. Now that their software got rewritten in Node, no QR code works anymore. How can I support this old URL with Node? I tried setting up a route for it:

app.get('/single.php?articleID=:id', log.logRequest, auth.checkAuth, function (request, reponse) {
  response.send(request.params.id);
});

But it just responds this:

Cannot GET /single.php?articleID=12

Any ideas? Thanks.

Jonathan Lonowski · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-20 09:16:57Z

2

Express routes are just for paths, but you should be able to route single.php and get articleID from req.query.

app.get('/single.php', log.logRequest, auth.checkAuth, function (request, reponse) {
    response.send(request.query.articleID);
});

If you want to require the query parameter for the route, you can create a custom middleware for it:

function requireArticleID(req, res, next) {
    if ('articleID' in req.query) {
        next();
    } else {
        next('route');
    }
}

app.get('/single.php', requireArticleID, ..., function (request, reponse) {
    // ...
});

next('route') is discussed under Application Routing.

answered Aug 20, 2013 at 9:16

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