Simpler variables in URL

TeriyakiDelight · #1 (**permalink**) 02-18-2008, 03:17 PM

I can get my site to work as follows
http://www.site.com/products/view/name/<productName>

But would like it to be
http://www.site.com/products/<productName>

Is there a default param name I can grab from within the product controller's index action? What's a good way of grabbing the product name and having my way with it?

notrub225 · #2 (**permalink**) 02-18-2008, 10:47 PM

If you don't want to modify the controller (i don't recommend messing with it right off the bat),The URL must follow this pattern:

yoursitehere.com/controller/action/key1/value1/key2/value2/

It sounds like this doesn't suit you though so you should read up on Zend_Controller_Router_Rewrite

TeriyakiDelight · #3 (**permalink**) 02-19-2008, 01:29 AM

Thanks,
I read up on the router and it seems to work great.

For those who wish to know how I did it, in my public index I added:

PHP Code:


			
Zend_Loader::loadClass('Zend_Controller_Front');

Zend_Loader::loadClass('Zend_Controller_Router_Rewrite');



$router = new Zend_Controller_Router_Rewrite();

$ctrl = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance();

$router = $ctrl->getRouter();



$router->addRoute('product', new Zend_Controller_Router_Route('products/:productName', array('controller'=>'products','action'=>'view')));

So, instead of
http://site.com/Products/view/productName/<productName>

you can get the same result with
http://site.com/Products/<productName>

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