Question

I’ve been trying to wrap my head around routing and for that very reason build a small aplication to fiddle around with, but i’ve managed to stumble upon a problem.

The goal of the whole test was to hide the url ‘hostname/content/index/add’ and turn it into a url more understandable for a user like ‘hostname/wms/content/add’.

But now for some odd reason i cannot redirect using the $this->url() methode. But somehow a normal link like somelink work.

I have build a few routes in the application.ini to test how it works. It’s nothing fancy…

resources.router.routes.contentroute.route = "/wms/content"
resources.router.routes.contentroute.defaults.module = content
resources.router.routes.contentroute.defaults.controller = index
resources.router.routes.contentroute.defaults.action = index

resources.router.routes.vacaturesroute.route = "/wms/vacatures"
resources.router.routes.vacaturesroute.defaults.module = vacatures
resources.router.routes.vacaturesroute.defaults.controller = index
resources.router.routes.vacaturesroute.defaults.action = index

So when i type hostname/wms/content i get redirected to the content module’s IndexController and it’s IndexAction. This works fine for all the links in my views that point to the content module like this

<a href='wms/content/'> link </a>

However it’s not working for 3 links that actually redirect towards a specific action of the IndexController on that very page hostname/wms/content.

<a href="<?php echo $this->url(array('controller'=>'index','action'=>'add'));?>">Add new content</a>

Instead of actually redirecting towards the add action in the IndexController i get redirected to hostname/wms/content, wich is the page i’m comming from.

Anyone have an idea why this is happening and possibly a way to solve this? Or am i totally approaching this the wrong way?

Answer 1

First, your route are static ones. You should replace them with:

resources.router.routes.contentroute.route = "/wms/content/:action/*"
resources.router.routes.contentroute.defaults.module = content
resources.router.routes.contentroute.defaults.controller = index
resources.router.routes.contentroute.defaults.action = index

Then, you should specify the name of your route and pass true in reset argument:

$this->url(
  array('module'=>'content', 'controller'=>'index','action'=>'add'), 
  'contentroute', 
  true
);