Yii Routing

[distortionzzz 3]

Hi everyone,

 

I'm going slightly beyond the scope of part 1 of this book. I want to create my own routes, an example being. Instead of /user/register, I want to use just /register.

 

I thought i could just modify the URL Manager config and add something like this:

 

'<action:\w+>'=>'<controller>/<action>',

 

This wouldn't have been an ideal solution anyway incase of duplicate action names. Does anyone have a solution to this. Some kind of override.

 

Thank you.

[distortionzzz 3]

Hi again,

 

I can't believe I solved this only minutes after asking for help

 

I simply added the below to the UrlManager

 

 

'register'=>'/user/register'

 

And I thought I had to do something fancy

 

Thanks Anyway

[Larry 428]

Yep, that will work. Kudos for figuring it out and thanks for sharing your solution.

[Solid 0]

Thx, nice fix.

I was struggeling a bit at first, but then i figured out what i did wrong. You have to remember the / in front of register when you add it to the menu, or it will go to /site/register and fail.

 

You can also add:

'/'=>'/site/index'

and set the home-link to just /.

 

Thank you Simon

[Larry 428]

I should have mentioned it before, but it should be just:

'register'=>'user/register'

You shouldn't need the initial slash.

Also, there's really no need to set / to site/index, as site/index is the default controller/action. That's an unnecessary rule, and unnecessary rules confuse things and hurt performance.

[Edward 108]

But a website would look url ugly with site controller after the domain name. So how do we go about this?

[Antonio Conte 426]

It's the main rule. No need to declare it. This is why it works to go to domain.com/index.php or domain.com and still see the default screen.

[nathor240 0]

Spending hours on trying to gett rid of the index.php in the url. Working on windows maching with XAMPP 1.8.0. and having no luck. Any help would greatly be appreciated. I the url looks good now but I just get a 404 error. I comment out the 'showScriptName'=>false, line in the urlManager config array and the 404 error goes away but the url is messing again.

 

I Checked the httpd.conf file to make sure overrides would be taken from the .htaccess file in the web root.

 

#

# AllowOverride controls what directives may be placed in .htaccess files.

# It can be "All", "None", or any combination of the keywords:

# Options FileInfo AuthConfig Limit

#

AllowOverride All

 

I wrote and saved the htaccess file in the web root where the index.php is, you can see I've tried a few different things.

 

#Options +FollowSymLinks

RewriteEngine on

#RewriteBase /

# if a directory or a file exists, use it directly

RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}%{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

#RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteCond $1 !^(index.php)

# otherwise forward it to index.php

#RewriteRule ^(.*)\?*$ index.php/$1 [L,QSA]

RewriteRule ^(.+)$ index.php?$1 [PT,L,QSA]

 

I went in and modified the urlManager array in the main.php config file

 

'urlManager'=>array(

'urlFormat'=>'path',

'showScriptName'=>false,

'rules'=>array(

'contact' => array('site/contact', 'caseSensitive'=>false),

'login' => array('site/login', 'caseSensitive'=>false),

'<controller:\w+>/<id:\d+>'=>'<controller>/view',

'<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>/<id:\d+>'=>'<controller>/<action>',

'<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>'=>'<controller>/<action>',

),

),

[Larry 428]

Sorry. This slipped through the cracks for me. Are you still having a problem with this?