I've been googling around and I can't seem to find anything which explains the use of ZF router well. I've read the documentation on the site, which seems to only talk about re-routing.
I am trying to make the format:
/module/value/controller/action give /module/controller/action passing on value as a parameter
e.g.
/store/johnsmithbigsale/home/newstuff would route to /store/home/newstuff passing on johnsmithbigsale as the value to a parameter with a hidden namespace e.g. storeName.
Some help would be greatful!
You can use Zend_Controller_Router_Route to map your url parts to modules, controllers, actions, and parameters that can be used in the controller by $this->_getParam('varName'). You can define these routes in the application.ini file or in the application bootstrap.
// custom city route
$route = new Zend_Controller_Router_Route(
'cities/:city',
array(
'controller' => 'city',
'action' => 'view'
)
);
$this->addRoute('city', $route);
// custom buy widgets route
$route = new Zend_Controller_Router_Route_Regex(
'buy_(.+)_widgets/([0-9]+)(.*)',
array(
'controller' => 'widgets',
'action' => 'view'
),
array(
1 => 'nothing',
2 => 'widget_id',
3 => 'vars'
)
);
$this->addRoute('widgets', $route);
The regex route is kind of specific to my app, but you can see that each match can get mapped to a parameter.
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I am new to routing in zf. I don't understand some terms in route
$route = new Zend_Controller_Router_Route(
'author/:username',
array(
'controller' => 'profile',
'action' => 'userinfo'
)
);
$router->addRoute('user', $route);
How do we get :username here? from where do we get this?
Username here is parameter pass by the user. So correct link using this route will be http://somepage.com/author/John. In your controller you can get this variable just like POST and GET variables - $this->getParam('author');
If you want to allow user use link without parameter (default parameter) you can add to array - 'author' => null (i usually use this in pagination)
I don´t know what I do wrong. I got two named Zend route:
$route = new Zend_Controller_Router_Route(
'catalog/:categoryIdent/:productIdent/',
array(
'action' => 'viewproduct',
'controller' => 'catalog',
'module' => 'eshop',
'categoryIdent' => '',
'productIdent' => ''
),
array(
'categoryIdent' => '[a-zA-Z-_0-9]+',
'productIdent' => '[a-zA-Z-_0-9]+'
)
);
$router->addRoute('catalog_category_product', $route);
// catalog category route
$route = new Zend_Controller_Router_Route(
'catalog/:categoryIdent/:page/',
array(
'action' => 'viewcategory',
'controller' => 'category',
'module' => 'eshop',
'categoryIdent' => '',
'page' => ''
),
array(
'categoryIdent' => '[a-zA-Z-_0-9]+'
)
);
$router->addRoute('catalog_category', $route);
When I call catalog_category its all fine but when I try call to catalog_category_product is used viewcategory action from second route. It means its problem with :page variable in url, resp. same count of arguments in URL? I think that itsn´t nessesary I would like to get two different but similar routes - for example:
For category - catalog/category1/1
For product - catalog/category1/product1 (without number of page)
when I change form of route catalog_category_product to catalog/:categoryIdent/something/:productIdent/ so its working
here is route calls
$this->url(array('categoryIdent' => categoryIdent, 'productIdent' => productIdent), 'catalog_category_product', true);
$this->url(array('categoryIdent' => 'cerveny-cedr', 'page' => 'pageNumber'), 'catalog_category', true);
Thanks for any help
Keep in mind that routes are checked in reverse order, so the ZF router will check the catalog_category route before the catalog_category_product route when matching URLs. So, the number of arguments is not a problem, but since you've not put any sort of restriction on the 'page' parameter, all URLs that would normally match your catalog_category_product URL will be matched by catalog_category instead.
It sounds like 'page' should be numeric, so adding that restriction to your second route should fix the problem.
I have a route defined as below.
$route['manage-vehicles'] = new Zend_Controller_Router_Route(
'vehicles/manage/page/:page',
array(
'controller' => 'vehicles',
'action' => 'manage',
'page' => '1'
)
);
When the 'page' parameter is not specifically defined (e.g. in a menu constructed using the navigation component), the resultant URL is
/vehicles/manage/page
I would much prefer or the URL not to to display the default paramater key in this scenario
i.e. /vehicles/manage
Any ideas how to accomplish this would be appreciated?
Thanks.
EDIT: For clarity, I would like vehicles/manage/page/1 etc to display when the 'page' parameter is defined
The 'page' string you have in your route is not required for the page parameter to work, so all you need to do is change your route to:
$route['manage-vehicles'] = new Zend_Controller_Router_Route(
'vehicles/manage/:page',
array(
'controller' => 'vehicles',
'action' => 'manage',
'page' => '1'
)
);
you've told it which thing in the URL is 'page', so you don't need the prefix there. That's just part of the default route where the parameters are not predefined.
I would like to have my urls like this:
/index
/contact
/articles
/articles/selection
...
Instead of:
/index/index
/index/contact
/articles/index
/articles/selection
...
Basically I have only one controller. Which solution is the best to perform this? (controllers and redirections, ZF routing, url rewriting, something else?)
Have a look at the documentation. The behaviour you want is configured as default in the default router:
http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.controller.router.html
if the first param do not maps a module name, it will search for a controller and if this fails too, it is looking for an action in your IndexController.
Did you tried calling your url's like you want to?
What happens if you navigate to /index? Should be the same like /index/index
use zend routing :
$router = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance()->getRouter();
$route_index = new Zend_Controller_Router_Route(':action', array(
'module' => 'default',
'controller' => 'index',
'action' => 'index'
));
$router->addRoute('route_index', $route_index );
$route_articles = new Zend_Controller_Router_Route('articles/:action', array(
'module' => 'default',
'controller' => 'articles',
'action' => 'index'
));
$router->addRoute('route_articles ', $route_articles );
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.