Question

I am working with URL routing , and have some issues. I want my url to be like this:

http://www.domain.com/p/myproduct

But I also want to be able to retrieve the ID of the product, without accessing the database. I thought about having a URL like:

http://www.domain.com/p/myproduct/1

But if I could hide the ID it would be better.

So, how do I do it the simplest way?

Currently my Global.asax has the following route:

 routes.MapLocalizedRoute("Product",
                        "p/{productId}/{SeName}",
                        new { controller = "Catalog", action = "Product", SeName = UrlParameter.Optional },
                        new { productId = @"\d+" },
                        new[] { "Nop.Web.Controllers" });

Answer 1

If all you have is the url then you will have to include the ID there if you want to read it.

The only way to hide it is if you have the ID coming to you from the post of a form say, assuming they have come from a previous page. Then you could store the selected Id and post to url as part of the request.