I might be asking a bit too much here but I would like to know how can I further shorten urls such that they look like there's not an inclusion of a controller.
eg: I want to shorten this:
www.mysite.com/users/Bob-123
to
www.mysite.com/Bob-123
or something like www.mysite.com/bob-123-user
Any ideas here? - I'm using the Zend framework here
You can do with the help of Zend Router .
Here you need to fetch the usernames and add routes to it. This way it will recognise which controller and action it needs to fetch.
$router = $this->_front->getRouter();
$route = new Zend_Controller_Router_Route(
':username',
array(
'controller' => 'profile',
'action' => 'userinfo'
)
);
$router->addRoute('user', $route);
An example taken from zend manual
In your application.ini you could do it using Zend_Controller_Router_Route_Regex:
resources.router.routes.user.route = "(\w+)-(\d+)"
resources.router.routes.user.type = "Zend_Controller_Router_Route_Regex"
resources.router.routes.user.defaults.controller = users
resources.router.routes.user.defaults.action = index
resources.router.routes.user.map.1 = username
resources.router.routes.user.map.2 = id
resources.router.routes.user.reverse = "/%s-%d"
You would need to specify your own action and controller.
Hope this helps.
Related
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 actually using zend, and I wonder how to get the id in such url :
/delete/2
I know I can do it using :
// if URL is /delete/id/2
$request->getParam('id');
But what I want is to have url like the first one /delete/2 which sounds more logical to me.
Ideas?
Thanks for your help
I think you should be able to solve this kind of problem using routes. You can create a route for
/delete/2
by adding this to for example your config.ini file:
[production]
routes.delete.route = "delete/:id"
routes.delete.defaults.controller = delete
routes.delete.defaults.action = index
routes.delete.id.reqs = "\d+"
Here you specify the URL to match, in which words starting with a colon : are variables. As you can see, you can also set requirements on your variables regex-style. In your example, id will most likely be one or more digits, resulting in a \d+ requirement on this variable.
This route will point the url to the index action of the delete controller and sets id as a GET-var. You can alter this .ini code to suit your specific needs.
The routes can be added by putting the following code inside your bootstrap:
$config = new Zend_Config_Ini('/path/to/config.ini', 'production');
$router = new Zend_Controller_Router_Rewrite();
$router->addConfig($config, 'routes');
See the docs for more information: here for the general documentation and here for the .ini approach I just described.
Try this: add the following function to your Bootstrap.php
protected function _initRoute(){
$this->bootstrap ('frontcontroller');
$front = $this->getResource('frontcontroller');
$router = $front->getRouter();
$deleteRoute = new Zend_Controller_Router_Route(
'delete/:id',
array(
'controller' => '{enter-your-controller-name-here}',
'action' => '{enter-your-action-name-here}'
)
);
$router->addRoute('delete', $deleteRoute);
}
Don't forget to replace {enter-your-controller-name-here} with controller name and {enter-your-action-name-here} with action name.
With this code added, $request->getParam('id'); should work just fine.
After creating a modular structure for a single module would prevent the url appears the name of the controller.
everything works with the defaul
site.con/foo/index/action/
I wish I could write as
site.com/foo/action/
being IndexController the only controller that module.
I have tested several solutions but do not work. Being the first app with ZF I do not quite clear the steps to be taken.
You need Zend Routes.
Define routes in your
bootstrap.php
Open your bootstrap.php and put the following:
function _initRoutes() {
$front_controller = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance();
$router = $front_controller->getRouter();
$router->addRoute('foo-action', new Zend_Controller_Router_Route(
'<foo module name>/<action name>', array('module' => 'foo', 'controller' => 'index', 'action' => '<action-name>')
));
}
PS:Worked / Didn't work?
Mention in comments and if didn't work, give proper names of module, controller and action.
EDIT:
How to set default controller / module in application.ini
routes.index.type = "Zend_Controller_Router_Route"
routes.index.route = "/"
routes.index.defaults.module = "<module name>"
routes.index.defaults.controller = "index"
routes.index.defaults.action = "index"
Solves it?
I am building an application that uses hostname routing to detect subdomains like
user1.example.com
user2.example.com
and also have custom routes like user1.example.com/login
This works well so far, however when I add custom routes they do not work. I have searched and read a lot but seems there is something I am missing. Here is what I have so far:
//my routes in routes.ini
[development]
routes.login.type = "Zend_Controller_Router_Route"
routes.login.route = "/login"
routes.login.defaults.controller = "user"
routes.login.defaults.action = "login"
//This part in Bootstrap file
$this->bootstrap('frontController');
$router = $this->frontController->getRouter();
$routerConfig = new Zend_Config_Ini(
APPLICATION_PATH . '/configs/routes.ini',
'production'
);
//I create a default route
$routeDefault = new Zend_Controller_Router_Route_Module(
array(),
$this->frontController->getDispatcher(),
$this->frontController->getRequest()
);
$router->addConfig($routerConfig, 'routes');
// hostname route
$hostnameRoute = new Zend_Controller_Router_Route_Hostname(
':username.mysite.com',
array(
'module' => 'default',
'controller' => 'index',
'action' => 'index',
)
);
//I add the default route.
$router->addRoute('default', $routeDefault);
//I chain the routes so that all routes have subdomain routing too
foreach ($router->getRoutes() as $key => $theroute) {
$router->addRoute($key, $hostnameRoute->chain($theroute));
}
When I go to a custom route like http://user1.example.com/login I get the error: 'Invalid controller specified (login)' which means my custom route is not being recognized. I am also not sure if the way I am adding the default route is correct and necessary. If I remove that code then it doesn't work. So my problem really is that I would like my hostname matching, custom routes and default routes to all work. If you can spot where I'm going wrong please help, I have read previous related posts all over on routes, chaining, default routes etc (including this very related one: How do I write Routing Chains for a Subdomain in Zend Framework in a routing INI file?) but haven't found the solution so far.
You should be able to setup your routing using a custom param in the route:
routes.testdynamicsubdomain.type = "Zend_Controller_Router_Route_Hostname"
routes.testdynamicsubdomain.route = ":subdomain.domain.dev"
routes.testdynamicsubdomain.defaults.module = public
routes.testdynamicsubdomain.defaults.controller = index
routes.testdynamicsubdomain.defaults.action = index
If your apache/hostfile etc are configured correctly going to test.domain.dev should load the index action in your indexController where you could get the :subdomain param:
echo $this->getRequest()->getParam('subdomain');
Also, as you discovered, the order of the routes is very important. See also Zend Router precedence for more info about this.
I am writing a user registration form.
After the user registers with a username e.g. "Billy", I would like him to use the url billy.mydomain.com to access the server.
The Zend framework link of billy.mydomain.com is
www.mydomain.com/profile/index/username/billy
I would like to know how I can rewrite the url from
www.mydomain.com/profile/index/username/billy
to
billy.mydomain.com
Throwing away my initial answer, This Solution is much more elegant.
$hostnameRoute = new Zend_Controller_Router_Route_Hostname(
':username.mydomain.com',
array(
'controller' => 'profile',
)
);
$pathRoute = new Zend_Controller_Router_Route(":action/*", array( 'action'=>'index' ));
$chain = $hostnameRoute->chain($pathRoute);
// add $chain to your router