Question

Can anyone help me? I’m doing some tests in ASP.NET MVC.

I want to implement the nice URL as stackoverflow.com routing system.

For example:
stackoverflow.com/questions/1074/asp-mvc
domain.com/id/title

Here is my code:

1. in the Global.asax

routes.MapRoute(null,
    "posts/{PostId}/{Title}",
    new { controller = "Posts", action = "Details", post = (string)null },
    new { PostId = @"\d+", Title = @"([A-Za-z0-9-]+)" }
);

2. in the View:

<%= Html.ActionLink(Model.Title, "Details", new { Model.PostID, Model.Title})%>

With those codes, I am geting the url : http://localhost:53171/posts/Details?PostID=5&Title=Test-title

Can one one advise me?

Thank you very much.

Answer 1

Not sure what all of the stackoverflow url means, but if you wanted a clean url like:

https://stackoverflow.com/Questions/132/thetitle

In your Global.asax:

    routes.MapRoute("PostController",
       "Questions/{post_id}/{post_title}",
       new { controller = "Post", action = "Index" },
       new { post_id = @"\d+", post_title = @"([A-Za-z0-9-]+)" }
    );

In your controller retrieve the values:

    public ActionResult Index(Int32 post_Id, String post_title)
    {
        return View();
    }

To produce the correct url use Html.RouteLink:

<%= Html.RouteLink("The Title", "PostController", new { post_id = 132, post_title = "thetitle" })%>