Creating custom friendly URLs using the Zend framework is really simple. The default routing setup for Zend is : ‘:module/:controller/:action/*’, (* will match any var/value) which is fine for most setups. However on some pages having the var/value might not look very good, for example this url is not very readable:
/popular/index/type/images/page/1/sortOrder/alltime (controller/action/var/value/var/value/var/value)
We [...]
14 Feb, 2009
Posted by: Peter In: PHP| Zend Framework
Zend Framework ships with several View Helpers, such as the url View Helper. Anywhere in a view script one can call $this->url() to generate a url to a certain page. For example:
$this->url(array(
‘module’ => ‘moduleName’,
‘action’ => ‘actionName’,
‘additionalParam’ =>‘value’))
I wanted to create my own helper, for generating paths to thumbnails, and it turned out [...]
So I thought I should introduce myself to my readers. My name is Peter Moberg and I am a Software Engineer from Sweden. I took my masters in computer science at Chalmers University of Technology in the spring of 2007. After this I was offered to move to the Bay Area in California (hello San [...]