Question

I’m aware that my question is very…plain and simple, but I’ll ask it anyway: hope that someone can give me a hint.

I’m rewriting a PHP web-application using Symfony2. My need is to perform CRUD operations on database objects (which have a primary key and other two fields, called field1 and field2)

In my old web-app I used to recall this URL:

  http://myhost/updateProduct.php?id=foo&field1=value1&field2=value2

to invoke the updateProduct.php script to update the object having id=foo, setting value1 for field1 and value2 for field2.

Now I’m willing to use a Symfony2 controller to do that job…I wonder which routing should I set up for that. My controller is ProductController and it embeds a updateAction($id,$field1,$field2) method.

I tried with something like (yml syntax):

myBundle_update:
    pattern:  /product/update/{id}/field1={value1}&field2={value2}
    defaults: { _controller: TestMyBundle:Product:update } 

but it’s not working.

So my question is: I’m mistaking the routing syntax (and if so, which is the correct one)? Or is there something I am missing about how to properly split request parameters to controllers?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

You probably want your route to look something like this:

pattern:    /product/update/{id}/{value1}/{value2}

This way just just invoke /product/update/1/fieldValue1/fieldValue2 to update the product.

I’m not sure, but probably the routing has some problems with your route defining an & in its route.

Update:
Ah, the problem lies most probably in the fact that you don’t have a / between your two values.
Symfony2 uses the regex [^/]+ as standard regex for a parameter.

http://symfony.com/doc/current/cookbook/routing/slash_in_parameter.html