Question

For our CMS we have a site manager that defines the site’s tree structure (sitemap if you want to call it that).

A possible url is http://www.example.com/our-team/developers/chris/ which would map in the tree structure to the node chris, child of developers which is in turn a child of out-team.

All this is in place and working thanks to the wonderfully implemented Nested Set behavior in doctrine. The only thing is that i’m struggling to get it working in the front end of our website. By default Zend framework’s request object expects controller/action/key/value/key/value/… URI scheme but that isn’t quite fitting my needs, i would like to skip the whole controller, action and key part and restrict to values. Something like value1/value2/value3/value4/…

Anyone has an idea how to accomplish this?

Edit: Some more background:
You probably wonder how i’m mapping the request to a controller/action? Well every request that isn’t dispatchable (thus isn’t an existing controller/action) is handled by the error controller, it is there where i match the request URI against a path in the tree structure and thus am able to display the page (if the path matches), if it doesn’t match the error controller just continues and a 404 is responded.

Answer 1

I accomplished the routing by extending the Zend_Controller_Router_Route_Abstract class.

By adding it to the router stack, it is possible to use a ‘waterfall’ system using many routes.

I published the code on my blog and it works as Bittarman suggested.