Question

Let say I have Event controller. In the controller, I have 3 actions: attendees, photos, and messages.

How do I achieve the following route schema:

1. http://www.site.com/event/{eventname}
2. http://www.site.com/event/{eventname}/action/
3. http://www.site.com/event/{eventname}/action/{actionid}

Controller will be called EventController, Action can be any of the three actions (attendees, photos, and messages). E.g.

• http://www.site.com/event/ – list all the events
• http://www.site.com/event/autiebirthday/ – show auntibirthday event, in this page there will be links to call photos, messages, and attendees action.
• http://www.site.com/event/autiebirthday/photos/ – list all the photos of auntie birthday event.
• http://www.site.com/event/autiebirthday/photos/1 – show photo with id 1, along with comments.

Thanks.

Rwendi

Answer 1

Route table:

public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
{
    routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");

    routes.MapRoute(
        "EventHome", // Route name
        "event/{eventName}/{action}/{id}", // URL with parameters
        new { controller = "Event", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional } // Parameter defaults
    );

    routes.MapRoute(
        "Default", // Route name
        "{controller}/{action}/{id}", // URL with parameters
        new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional } // Parameter defaults
    );
}

Controller:

public class EventController : Controller
{
    public ActionResult Index(string eventName)
    {
        ViewBag.EventName = eventName;

        return View();
    }

    public ActionResult Photos(int? id)
    {
        ViewBag.Id = id;

        return View();
    }
}

Note that I simply used ViewBag in order to test that the routes work. You should naturally use a proper data source for production.