Question

I created a SOAP server outside of Magento (lets call it http://www.example.com/soap/). The directory /soap looks like this:

example.wsdl
example_server.php

There are helper classes that I’m ignoring because the users don’t see those. What I want to do is move this code into a Magento module and use the router to avoid forcing users to change their URLs. Is this possible? For example, when a user requests http://www.example.com/soap/example.wsdl I want to route that to My_Newsoap_IndexController::wsdlAction().

This is what I’ve got in my config.xml right now:

<frontend>
  <routers>
    <newsoap>
      <use>standard</use>
      <args>
        <module>My_Newsoap</module>
        <frontName>soap</frontName>
      </args>
    </newsoap>
  </routers>
</frontend>

Answer 1

Conditional yes, but not the way you’re thinking. The <routers/> tags in the Magento config setup a very specific sort of routing. In plain english, you can say

“URLs that start with this <frontName/> should be handled by this module”

Outside of that though, there’s no further way to setup custom routes by configuration alone.

What you can do is configure a custom router object, and then write PHP code to implement your routing logic however you want to. The how of this goes beyond a simple Stack Overflow answer, but you can get the full story in this series of articles, or see an example of custom routing in the simple page module, (self links).