Zend routing issue - router

Question

I'm working on converting a (quite sloppily put together) zend expressive website to a zend framework 3 website for a local restaurant. When I set up the routing on the expressive website I would load a location based on a query parameter looking like this.
website.com/location?location=xxx
On my new website the routing looks like this
website.com/locations/view/xxx
I need to set up a route that redirects the old url to the new url. So far I have set up a route that looks for the
/location?location=[/:location]
hoping that it would recognize this 'Segment' route and load the appropriate LocationsController. Right now it is giving me a route not found error.
My code looks like below.
module.config.php
namespace Application;
use Zend\Router\Http\Literal;
use Zend\Router\Http\Segment;
use Zend\ServiceManager\Factory\InvokableFactory;
return [
'router' => [
'routes' => [
'home' => [
'type' => Literal::class,
'options' => [
'route' => '/',
'defaults' => [
'controller' => Controller\IndexController::class,
'action' => 'index',
],
],
],
'locations-old' => [
'type' => Segment::class,
'options' => [
'route' => '/location?location=[/:location]',
'defaults' => [
'controller' => Controller\LocationController::class,
'action' => 'index',
],
],
],
'locations' => [
'type' => Segment::class,
'options' => [
'route' => '/locations[/:action[/:location]]',
'constraints' => [
'action' => '[a-zA-Z]*',
'location' => '[a-zA-Z]*',
],
'defaults' => [
'controller' => Controller\LocationController::class,
'action' => 'index',
],
],
],
'locations.html' => [
'type' => Literal::class,
'options' => [
'route' => '/locations.html',
'constraints' => [
'action' => '[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_-]*',
'location' => '[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_-]*',
],
'defaults' => [
'controller' => Controller\IndexController::class,
'action' => 'index',
],
],
],
'about' => [
'type' => Literal::class,
'options' => [
'route' => '/about',
'defaults' => [
'controller' => Controller\AboutController::class,
'action' => 'index',
],
],
],
'employ' => [
'type' => Literal::class,
'options' => [
'route' => '/employ',
'defaults' => [
'controller' => Controller\EmployController::class,
'action' => 'index',
],
],
],
'news' => [
'type' => Literal::class,
'options' => [
'route' => '/news',
'defaults' => [
'controller' => Controller\NewsController::class,
'action' => 'index',
],
],
],
],
],
'view_manager' => [
'display_not_found_reason' => true,
'display_exceptions' => true,
'doctype' => 'HTML5',
'not_found_template' => 'error/404',
'exception_template' => 'error/index',
'template_map' => [
'layout/layout' => __DIR__ . '/../view/layout/layout.phtml',
'application/index/index' => __DIR__ . '/../view/application/index/index.phtml',
'error/404' => __DIR__ . '/../view/error/404.phtml',
'error/index' => __DIR__ . '/../view/error/index.phtml',
],
'template_path_stack' => [
__DIR__ . '/../view',
],
],
];
LocationController.php
namespace Application\Controller;
use Zend\Mvc\Controller\AbstractActionController;
use Application\Model\StoreTable;
use Zend\View\Model\ViewModel;
class LocationController extends AbstractActionController
{
private $table;
public function __construct(StoreTable $table)
{
$this->table = $table;
}
public function indexAction()
{
if($_GET['location'] && $this->table->doesExist($_GET['location'])) {
$location = $_GET['location'];
$this->redirect()->toRoute('locations', ['action' => 'view', 'location' => $location])->setStatusCode(302);
} else {
$this->redirect()->toUrl('/#locations')->setStatusCode(301);
}
}
public function viewAction()
{
$location = (string) $this->params()->fromRoute('location');
$store = $this->table->getStore($location);
return new ViewModel([
'store' => $store,
]);
}
}
Any help would be greatly appreciated and I can provide more info if needed.
Thanks!

Answer 1

configure your route as following, this will be handle query based url as you given "website.com/location?location=xxx",
In below route ":key" variable implies ?location=xxx
'locations-old' => [
'type' => Segment::class,
'options' => [
'route' => '/location/:key',
'defaults' => [
'controller' => Controller\LocationController::class,
'action' => 'index',
],
'constraints' => [
'key' => '[a-z0-9]+',
],
],
'child_routes' => [
'query' => ['type' => 'query'],
],
]