User friendly urls revelsal - redirect

Question

Lets say that I want to show http://example.com/topic/view/topicname/thenameofthetopic direclty as http://example.com/thenameofthetopic
So I have achieved that when entering http:// example.com/thenameofthetopic , it redirects you to the controller/action properly, and the website shows what I want to show, the problem is that of course, the URL changed, and I want it to maintain the format http://example.com/thenameofthetopic
Is that possible whitout touching the htaccess file? Just configuring it with yii
How should I do that?

Answer 1

Exactly your case is:
'components' => array(
'urlManager' => array(
'urlFormat' => 'path',
'showScriptName' => false,
'rules' => array(
"<name_of_topic:\w+>/" => 'controller/action'
),
),
)
You will get the name of topic in Yii::app()->request->getQuery('name_of_topic');
htaccess is Yii - classic, the must be present:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [L,QSA]
I would advice you to do another way.
'components' => array(
'urlManager' => array(
'urlFormat' => 'path',
'showScriptName' => false,
'rules' => array(
"t/<name_of_topic:\w+>/" => 'controller/action'
),
),
)
So topic link will be http://www.example.com/t/name_of_topic.
This will allow you to use "a//" for articles etc.
One more thing. Read this article to find much interesting things http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/guide/1.1/en/topics.url