Question

Lets say that I want to show http://example.com/topic/view/topicname/thenameofthetopic direclty as http://example.com/thenameofthetopic

So I have achieved that when entering http:// example.com/thenameofthetopic , it redirects you to the controller/action properly, and the website shows what I want to show, the problem is that of course, the URL changed, and I want it to maintain the format http://example.com/thenameofthetopic

Is that possible whitout touching the htaccess file? Just configuring it with yii

How should I do that?

Answer 1

Exactly your case is:

'components'        => array(
  'urlManager' => array(
      'urlFormat'      => 'path',
      'showScriptName' => false,
      'rules' => array(
          "<name_of_topic:\w+>/" => 'controller/action'
       ),
   ),
)

You will get the name of topic in Yii::app()->request->getQuery(‘name_of_topic’);

htaccess is Yii – classic, the must be present:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [L,QSA]

I would advice you to do another way.

'components'        => array(
  'urlManager' => array(
      'urlFormat'      => 'path',
      'showScriptName' => false,
      'rules' => array(
          "t/<name_of_topic:\w+>/" => 'controller/action'
       ),
   ),
)

So topic link will be http://www.example.com/t/name_of_topic.
This will allow you to use “a//” for articles etc.

One more thing. Read this article to find much interesting things http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/guide/1.1/en/topics.url