Convert front-facing files to use the front controller

[imkingdavid]

One dependency that must be sorted out prior to even beginning is the paths issue (in short, it's the difference between URLs that look like /app.php?controller=topic/1#p124 and URLs that look like /app.php/topic/1#p124 or (using URL rewriting) /topic/1#p124. If we do not sort this out first, we will be breaking URLs twice (when it eventually does get sorted out), which is not acceptable.

FYI: In its current state, the meta_refresh function fails to handle controller file URLS right now... because it likes to filter out any slashes that appear among the URL params... So for now, a url like /app.php?controller=topic/1#p124 can not be handled by the meta_refresh function. It would redirect you instead to /app.php?controller=topic. It may probably also fail to handle /app.php/topic/1#p124 formatted URLs too.

Alright, thanks. I'll look into it.

[naderman]

On the subject of slugs you should review the [RFC] Human Readable URLs topic.

Generally speaking +1 on the proposal, would certainly like to eliminate the duplicated code and multiple entry points we currently have.

[imkingdavid]

To update, I missed to GSoC deadline on accident so this will likely be pushed back in favor of getting 3.1 blockers fixed and getting the post revisions feature ready for potential inclusion in either 3.1 or 3.2, depending on timing.

[imkingdavid]

Also, for anyone interested in helping out (since it is no longer specifically my project), I have started work on this on the following branch.
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