Question

I am submitting a normal <form method="get"> element to the current url… It’s part of a search page. The resulting url is below.
http://domain.com/module/controller/action/get1/value1/?get2=get2&value3=value3
The problem is I am using <?= $this->url(array('page' => x)); ?> and similar to navigate around but I want to retain the $_GET params… Whenever I use it, it retains the / slashed $_GET params and looses the ?&= value pairs…
I want to use Mod_Rewrite to change the value pairs to slashes…
My current rule is..

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^.*$ zend.php [NC,L]

I’m not confident with Mod_Rewrite and I don’t want to conflict with the existing rules.

I also like a trailing slash as well… so that would be a bonus…

Please help!! Many thanks…

PS…
Re “Zend_Router… Zend_Form..” in the title. I am using Zend_Form to construct the form and I realise that I could use javascript on the onSubmit function to write the URL… similarly I could use the Zend_Router to rewrite the url… I think Mod_rewrite is best though…

Answer 1

I could not find a nice way to do this… so I resolved to write some minimised PHP code at the top of my zend.php.

list($sURL, $sQuery) = explode('?', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
$sOriginalURL = $sURL;
if ('/' !== substr($sURL, -1)) $sURL .= '/';
if (isset($sQuery)) {
    foreach (explode('&', $sQuery) as $sPair) {
        if (empty($sPair)) continue;
        list($sKey, $sValue) = explode('=', $sPair);
        $sURL .= $sKey . '/' . $sValue . '/';
    }
}
if (isset($sQuery) || $sOriginalURL !== $sURL) header(sprintf('Location: %s', $sURL));

If anyone can improve on this please comment below.