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 would prefer something like this:
/popular/images/1/alltime
Luckily Zend provides a very flexible router that we can configure as we want. To start with, we create a new config file called routes.ini, and adds these lines:
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routes.popular.route = popular/:type/:page/:sortOrder
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routes.popular.defaults.controller = popular
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routes.popular.defaults.action = index
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routes.popular.defaults.type = images
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routes.popular.defaults.sortOrder = alltime
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routes.popular.defaults.page = 1
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routes.popular.reqs.type = \w+
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routes.popular.reqs.page = \d+
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routes.popular.reqs.sortOrder = \w+
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routes.popular.route tells us what to match. routes.popular.defaults.* sets default values for the variables (if none are given in the url). routes.popular.reqs.* sets requirements on the variables, for example that page must be a number.
The last thing we need to do is add a few lines to our bootstrap.php:
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$config = new Zend_Config_Ini(APPLICATION_PATH . ‘/config/routes.ini’);
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$router = $frontController->getRouter();
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$router->addConfig($config,‘routes’);
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