Yii Routes '<Controller:\W+>/<Id:\D+>'=>'<Controller>/View'

[Edward 108]

I have a slight problem

 

I want to be able to load items via name or numerical id, yii is already set to work with numerical id through

 

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

 

but what if i pass a unique string instead to the view page how could i get that to work for example:

 

mywebsite/item/babolat-aerodrive-2013-nadal-rafa-3

 

I have tried to make some of my own customizations but they have failed to work and i received the following error message:

 

Error 404

The system is unable to find the requested action "babolat-aerodrive-2013-nadal-rafa-3".

 

Is there someone that may know how to deal with such a situation?

[Edward 108]

After some peaceful mediation:

 

'<controller:item>/<id:\S+>'=>'item/view',

 

As you can see this will strictly work for only the item controller and will not interfere with others. I also used \S because this means not whitespace, if I use /w it will cover all word characters but not the hypen "-" which I need.

 

You also need to add pages in item you need to access in config/main.php routes otherwise the above route will always send you to the view page.

 

'item/create'=>'item/create',

 

Have a nice weekend everybody!

[Larry 428]

Excellent. Kudos for figuring that out and thanks for sharing. Here's to peaceful meditation!