In Zend Framework 2 I want to pass an array of parameters from one action to another within the same controller which I did in ZF1 in the following manner:
$this->_helper->redirector->gotoSimple('foo', null, null, $params);
and in fooAction:
$params = $this->_request->getParams();
In ZF2, trying the various answers I have seen here on SO, I came up with the following:
$this->redirect()->toRoute('home/default', array(
'controller' => 'client',
'action' => 'foo',
'param' => 'bar'),
array('param' => 'bar'));
(trying both the $params and $options arguments of toRoute())
and in fooAction:
$param = $this->getEvent()->getRouteMatch()->getParams();
or
$param = $this->params()->fromRoute());
None works for me. Is there a simple way to achieve what I want (passing parameters with a redirect) or should I go the route of using a container, session or even global variables?
You could use the forward plugin:
http://framework.zend.com/manual/2.0/en/modules/zend.mvc.plugins.html#the-forward-plugin
public function someAction()
{
$returnValue = $this->forward()->dispatch('application/controller/index', array(
'action' => 'other'
));
return $returnValue;
}
public function otherAction()
{
return 99;
}
You will be able to pass parameters too
In the end, what I did was, instead of using route parameters, using query parameters, since the parameters I used where not route related. That solved the problem.
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After a succes form i want to redirect to another controller, i do that with toRoute. Below there is an example
return $this->redirect()->toRoute('plaatsenrubriek',array('controller'=>'AdvertentieController', 'action'=>'plaatsenrubriek'));
Is there a way to insert a variable in the toRoute to pass to the next controller?
The only way to pass a variable during a redirect would be to add a query parameter to the target route.
$bar = 'bar';
$this->redirect()->toRoute('myRoute', array(), array(
'query' => array(
'foo' => $bar,
)
));
Which would result in /myRoute?foo=bar
I am new to Zend, but very very keen to learn. This is really just a quick question on routing in Zend Framework.
I understand the basic of it but I am still confused about how I can create some optional parameters at the end of my URL. For example, I have the following default page URL:
examplesite.com/accounts/enquiry
I now want to add two additional parameters to it i.e:
userid= 6
location= 12
So, the eventual URL should look like:
examplesite.com/accounts/enquiry/6/12
but
examplesite.com/accounts/enquiry
Will get you to the same page.
I am not clear. How do it do this? I mean, this is not a bespoke URL. so, I don't need to create a custom route. It basically just the last two parameters that need to be added to the page.
How do I do this?
First 2 parameters are controller and action name, the named params.
Here you are:
examplesite.com/accounts/enquiry/userid/6/location/12
or you can define your own route like this:
$route = new Zend_Controller_Router_Route('accounts/enquiry/:userid/:location);
and then add it to router:
$router->addRoute('accounts', $route);
You could add a custom route inside your Bootstrap.php, e.g. (untested):
protected function _initRoutes()
{
[...]
$frontController = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance();
$router = $frontController->getRouter();
$accounts = new Zend_Controller_Router_Route(
'accounts/enquiry/:userid/:location',
array(
'userid' => '[0-9]{2}',
'location' => '[0-9]{2}',
'controller' => 'accounts',
'action' => 'enquiry',
)
);
$router->addRoute('accounts', $accounts);
[...]
}
http://framework.zend.com/manual/1.12/en/zend.controller.router.html
I'm just new with Zend and I have a little trouble with Zend Routers. I've searched about it, but nothing found...
I want to be able to define a router for each defined variable at uri level to point to a different action in one controller.
I'm working with lang and modules so I defined at bootstrap application the next initRoutes function:
protected function _initRoutes()
{
$front = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance();
$router = $front->getRouter();
$defaultRoute = new Zend_Controller_Router_Route(
':lang/:module/:controller/:action',
array(
'lang' => 'es',
'module' => 'default',
'controller' => 'index',
'action' => 'index'
),
array(
'lang' => '^(en|es)$',
'module' => '^(default|admin)$'
)
);
$router->addRoute('defaultRoute', $defaultRoute);
return $router;
}
I want to be able to access forum sections and forum topics by their defined action.
Something like :
mydomain/forum -> forum/index
mydomain/forum/section -> forum/sectionAction
mydomain/forum/section/topic -> forum/topicAction
and also with the lang and module defined at uri level like :
mydomain/lang/module/forum
mydomain/lang/module/forum/section
mydomain/lang/module/forum/section/topic
So I have this :
class ForumController extends Zend_Controller_Action
{
public function indexAction()
{
}
public function sectionAction()
{
}
public function topicAction()
{
}
Then I created the next routes inside the Default_Bootstrap :
$forumRoutes = new Zend_Controller_Router_Route(
':lang/:module/forum',
array(
'lang' => 'es',
'module' => 'default',
'controller' => 'forum',
'action' => 'index'
)
);
$sectionRoutes = new Zend_Controller_Router_Route(
':lang/:module/forum/:section',
array(
'lang' => 'es',
'module' => 'default',
'controller' => 'forum',
'action' => 'section',
'section' => ''
)
);
$topic = new Zend_Controller_Router_Route(
':lang/:module/forum/:section/:topic',
array(
'lang' => 'es',
'module' => 'default',
'controller' => 'forum',
'action' => 'topic',
'section' => '',
'topic' => ''
)
);
$router->addRoute('forumTopics', $topic);
$router->addRoute('forumSections', $section);
$router->addRoute('forum', $forumRoutes);
Now, this only works if I define the lang and module at uri level, but doesn't work if I defined like => mydomain/forum/section | section/topic. This also brings me another problem with my navigation->menu. If I define "forum" as a static variable at router definition, when I hover over at any label defined at navigatoin.xml, the uri level have the same value for every one of them.
I've tried to make a chain like this:
$forumRoutes = new Zend_Controller_Router_Route(
':lang/:module/forum',
array(
'lang' => 'es',
'module' => 'default',
'controller' => 'forum',
'action' => 'index'
)
);
$section = new Zend_Controller_Router_Route(
':section',
array(
'action' => 'section',
'section' => ''
)
)
$topic = new Zend_Controller_Router_Route(
':topic',
array(
'action' => 'topic',
'topic' => ''
)
)
$chainedRoute = new Zend_Controller_Router_Route_Chain();
$chainedRoute->chain($topic)
->chain($section)
->chain($forumRoutes);
$router->addRoute($chainedRoute);
But this doesn't work as I expected.
Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
You are new to Zend. You said it. So here are some explanations:
Ideally the URL on Zend application is:
example.com/controller/action/param-name/:param-value
So in which case, if there is an action called Edit under UsersController, it will be:
example.com/users/edit
if action is add, it will be :
example.com/users/add
when you specify first parameter as a variable, it will collide with controller requests. Example: if you say controller is User but first parameter accepts a value and puts it in emplyees then a request as example.com/employees and example.com/user will both point towards employees controller even if the usercontroller exists! which again is a theory!
What you might want to do is, leave the routes to only accept dynamic values rather routing! You do not want users to route your application but, route user to different sections of the application.
About language then you need to use Zend_Locale which will check for HTML language that is
<html lang="nl"> or <html lang = "en">
Hope things are clear! :)
Here's a quick example which should help you work with routes like that in ZF.
If you are using a default project structure like the one you get when starting a new project using Zend Tool go into the Application folder.
In your Bootstrap.php set up something like this:
protected function _initRouteBind() {
// get the front controller and get the router
$front = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance();
$router = $front->getRouter();
// add each custom route like this giving them a descriptive name
$router->addRoute(
'addTheDescriptiveRouteNameHere',
new Zend_Controller_Router_Route(
'/:controller/:id/:action/:somevar',
array(
'module' => 'default',
'controller' => ':controller',
'action' => ':action',
'id' => ':id',
'somevar' => ':somevar'
)
)
);
}
My example above is just to illustrate how you would use a route where the controller, the action and a couple of parameters are set in the url.
The controller and action should be resolved without any additional work however to get the 'id' or 'somevar' value you can do this in your controller:
public function yourAction()
{
// How you get the parameters to pass in to a function
$id = $this->getRequest()->getParam('id');
$somevar = $this->getRequest()->getParam('somevar');
// Using the parameters
$dataYouWant = $this->yourAmazingMethod($id);
$somethingElse = $this->yourOtherAmazingMethod($somevar);
// Assign results to the view
$this->view->data = $dataYouWant;
$this->view->something = $somethingElse;
}
So while you will want to make sure your methods handle the parameters being passed in with care (after all it is user supplied info) this is the principle behind making use of the route parameter binding. You can of course do things like '/site' as the route and have it direct to a CMS module or controller, then another for '/site/:id' where 'id' is a page identifier.
Also just to say a nice alternative to:
$id = $this->getRequest()->getParam('id');
$somevar = $this->getRequest()->getParam('somevar');
which wasn't that nice itself anyway since it was assuming a parameter was going to be passed, using shorthand conditional statement in conjunction with action helpers is:
$id = ($this->_hasParam('id')) ? $this->_getParam('id') : null;
$somevar = ($this->_hasParam('somevar')) ? $this->_getParam('somevar') : null;
If you are not familiar with this, the
($this->_hasParam('id'))
is the conditional test which if true assigns the value of whatever is on the left of the ':' and which if false assigns the value of whatever is on the right of the ':'.
So if true the value assigned would be
$this->_getParam('id')
and null if false.
Does that help? :-D
I have several modules in my zend application. On one of the view script of my modules, I created a URL as such
$links['create'] = $this -> url(array("controller" => "roles", "action" => "create"), "custom");
This brings an error, saying Route "custom" is not define.
What is Route? Where to define it and How?
In my bootstrap file i have initialized my routing by adding following function
public function _initRouting() {
// Get Front Controller Instance
$front = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance();
// Get Router
$router = $front->getRouter();
$routedetialevent = new Zend_Controller_Router_Route(
'/events/detail/:id',
array(
'controller' => 'events',
'action' => 'detail'
)
);
$routeregister = new Zend_Controller_Router_Route(
'/index/register/:id',
array(
'controller' => 'index',
'action' => 'register'
)
);
$routerdetail = new Zend_Controller_Router_Route(
'/commentaries/details/:id',
array(
'controller' => 'commentaries',
'action' => 'details'
)
);
$router->addRoute('post', $routedetialevent);
$router->addRoute('register', $routeregister);
$router->addRoute('detail', $routerdetail);
}
as i have added the custom route in my events, commentaries whenever i visit detail page i dont have to write id in my url so my url will be like
http://localhost/example/events/detail/3
If i wouldnt have added route than my url would be like
http://localhost/example/events/detail/id/3
The Zend Framework manual has pretty decent documentation about routes and the router, including descriptions of several ways to define routes.
At a very basic level, routes are used both to parse URLs into parameters (like which controller and action should be used), and to do the reverse: take parameters and produce a URL.
For your purposes, unless you want to change how ZF will build your URL, you can just drop the "custom" part off of your url call.
how do i set up routing as follows
these work with the standard routing
/posts => index action (listing)
/posts/view => view action (individual post)
/posts/add => add action
/posts/edit => edit action
what abt these?
/posts can by filtered based on 1 or more query strings, in any order. eg.
/posts/tagged/tag1
/posts/tagged/tag1/timeframe/1w => fyi. 1w means 1 week
/posts/timeframe/1w/tagged/tag1 => can be in any order
/posts/sortby/dtposted => more options maybe added
how can i handle these? i tried
$route = new Zend_Controller_Router_Route(
'posts/*',
array(
'controller' => 'posts',
'action' => 'index'
)
);
$router->addRoute('postsIndex', $route);
but of cos, all routes to posts/* goes to the index controller. not what i want
You dont need to use a route for those url's if your using proper naming conventions it should naturally.
class PostsController extends Zend_Controller_Action{
public function viewAction(){
}
public function editAction(){
}
public function addAction(){
}
public function indexAction(){
}
}
I suggest going back to basics and learning how controllers models and views work in the zend framework before trying to understand routing :)