SEO friendly URL's on Zend Framework

Cristian · #1 (**permalink**) 03-26-2007, 05:41 PM

Hello,

I am very concern about SEO things for some websites and i am wondering what can do ZF for us. This is in fact the main reason for which i didn't switched to ZF MVC totally... Because i didn't found out a workaround for Controller side...

One problem i consider important is URL format.

Sample: Rather than focusing over URL format as: /news/view/73
....
I personally prefer to use a totally different format as: /This-is-the-news-title-19_73

where:
* "This-is-the-news-title" is news title
* 19 is page identifier (each page having his own id); i think standard Zf format (controller-view) is not always the best approach
* 73 is news identifier...

Why ? Because:
* is not a good idea to use a file into a directory, a file directly into root is ranked better by SE than one file under /onedire/subdir/subdir/filename
* using a filename format URL friendly helps on SE rankings: "This-is-the-news-title"
* because using "news" word means "news" is getting SEO exposure, and i don't want this, instead a number is filtered by SE so doesn't get exposure

So, i am wondering if there are any possibilities to work with controller side this way, more SEO friendly... Because standard controller doesn't help much...

SpotSec · #2 (**permalink**) 03-27-2007, 12:29 AM

simple just create a custom router

Cristian · #3 (**permalink**) 03-27-2007, 07:59 AM

You mean a implementation of:

Zend_Controller_Router_Route_Interface ?

I was able to partially solve problem by adding:

//added...
$router = $frontController->getRouter(); // returns a rewrite router by default
$router->removeDefaultRoutes();

$router->addRoute(
'user',
new Zend_Controller_Router_Route(':anytext_:controller _:action')
);

Format is still not what i wanted but anyway... More closer...

SpotSec · #4 (**permalink**) 03-27-2007, 11:06 PM

Inorder to get the format you want you will probably have to use some regex expressions to parse out the path and create a route

ee99ee · #5 (**permalink**) 03-31-2007, 04:46 PM

Did you ever get this working? I'm starting on a new project next week that will need to do someting similar to this. Any code you could share would be appreciated...

-Chris

Cristian · #6 (**permalink**) 03-31-2007, 05:55 PM

On index.php

PHP Code:


			
// load configuration
$config = new Zend_Config_Ini('./application/config.ini', 'general');
$registry = Zend_Registry::getInstance();
$registry->set('config', $config);

// setup router
$router = $frontController->getRouter();
$router->removeDefaultRoutes();
$router->addConfig($config, 'routes');

On config.ini

[general]

routes.index.route = ":seo_:controller_:action"
routes.index.defaults.controller = index
routes.index.defaults.action = index

I am not totally sure is 100% fine didn't tested very much... I tested constructing directly route not from .ini

Tommy1402 · #7 (**permalink**) 06-15-2007, 06:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SpotSec

simple just create a custom router

I'm new to this custom router thing and since documentation/end-user/core/en/zend.controller.router.html confuses me, could you give me some links where I can get an enlightment

Thanks!

SpotSec · #8 (**permalink**) 06-16-2007, 06:32 AM

Well, I'm not sure there are any links right now that talk about writing your own routers, but if you are going down this path, I'm sure there are a few people lurking around this forum that can help you out. There are several other knowledgeable people in the irc channel if you want to chat.

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