Question

I have 'urlFormat'=>'path' and 'showScriptName'=>false in the urlManager.

I have proxies/read as controller/action and article=>some_name as parameters.

Whenever I create a link such as:
$this->createUrl(‘proxies/read’, array(‘article’=>$name));

The result is an URL of the type:

proxies/read?article=socks5_proxy_list

I would like to dump the query parameter and reformat the URL to look like this:

controller/action/param_name/param_value

In this case that would be:

proxies/read/article/socks5_proxy_list

My current ‘rules’ look like this:

'rules'=>array(
  '<controller:\w+>/<id:\d+>'=>'<controller>/view',
  '<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>/<id:\d+>'=>'<controller>/<action>',
  '<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>/article/<article:\w+>'=>'<controller>/<action>/article/<article>',
  '<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>'=>'<controller>/<action>',
),

But they don’t seem to be working.

Answer 1

1. Shortcut to make this work:

   $this->createUrl('proxies/read/article/'.$name);
   

   And leave the urlManager rules without your custom rule.

2. Another way:

   // urlManager
   'rules'=>array(// order of rules is also important
     '<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>/article/<article:\w+>'=>'<controller>/<action>',
     '<controller:\w+>/<id:\d+>'=>'<controller>/view',
     '<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>/<id:\d+>'=>'<controller>/<action>',
     '<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>'=>'<controller>/<action>',
   ),
   

   In the above array, i just put the new rule in the beginning, to make sure that, that rule is applied whenever such a pattern is encountered. If you have other rules, then just make sure that this rule appears before a more general rule, that can match the pattern. Rule of thumb: more specific rule should appear before general rule.

   create url in view:

   $this->createUrl('proxies/read', array('article'=>$name));
   

3. Incase you don’t need any of the default “user-friendly url” rules, but only need path format urls, then you only need to specify 'urlFormat'=>'path' and leave the 'rules' array empty or omitted all together.

Read the URL Management guide in the definitive guide, if you haven’t already.