Question

By default you have the following URL-syntax in ZF: /module/controller/action. What i want, is to build an menu-system where i can use any URL I want.

Lets say I make an menu-item called ‘news’. When i call http://www.site.com/news i want to have the folowing loaded:

• module: news
• controller: frontpage
• action: display

These config-values must be configured in the database-record for the menu-item.

How can I do this in zend? I spend a lot of time searching for it, but I still can’t figure out how to. Does anybody?

Answer 1

You can create a plugin and in routeStartup define something that intercept your request and route /module/controller/action to /action, but for this all your action names must be unique :

  class My_CustomRouterPlugin extends Zend_Controller_Plugin_Abstract
    {
        public function routeStartup(Zend_Controller_Request_Abstract $request)
        {

            $fc = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance();
            $action =$fc->getRequest()->getActionName();

            $router = $fc->getRouter();

            $model= new myModel();      
            $myPage = $model->getPageByAction($action);

            $route =  new Zend_Controller_Router_Route('/action', array(
                            'module' => $myPage->getModule();
                            'controller' => $myPage->getController();
                            'action' => $action;

                        ));

             $router->addRoute($action, $route);
             return $router;
            }
    }

In myModel define a method can get you an object(or an array) that contains module, controller names (from you DB ).

and register this plugin in your bootstrap:

$front->registerPlugin(new My_CustomRouterPlugin());