I'm building my first Zend Framework application and I want to find out the best way to fetch user parameters from the URL.
I have some controllers which have index
, add
, edit
and delete
action methods. The index
action can take a page
parameter and the edit
and delete
actions can take an id
parameter.
Examples
http://example.com/somecontroller/index/page/1
http://example.com/someController/edit/id/1
http://example.com/otherController/delete/id/1
Until now I fetched these parameters in the action methods as so:
class somecontroller extends Zend_Controller_Action
{
public function indexAction()
{
$page = $this->getRequest->getParam('page');
}
}
However, a colleague told me of a more elegant solution using Zend_Controller_Router_Rewrite as follows:
$router = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance()->getRouter();
$route = new Zend_Controller_Router_Route(
'somecontroller/index/:page',
array(
'controller' => 'somecontroller',
'action' => 'index'
),
array(
'page' => '\d+'
)
);
$router->addRoute($route);
This would mean that for every controller I would need to add at least three routes:
- one for the "index" action with a :page parameter
- one for the "edit" action with an :id parameter
- one for the "delete" action with an :id parameter
See the code below as an example. These are the routes for only 3 basic action methods of one controller, imagine having 10 or more controllers... I can't imagine this to be the best solution. The only benefit that i see is that the parameter keys are named and can therefore be omitted from the URL (somecontroller/index/page/1
becomes somecontroller/index/1
)
// Route for somecontroller::indexAction()
$route = new Zend_Controller_Router_Route(
'somecontroller/index/:page',
array(
'controller' => 'somecontroller',
'action' => 'index'
),
array(
'page' => '\d+'
)
);
$router->addRoute($route);
// Route for somecontroller::editAction()
$route = new Zend_Controller_Router_Route(
'somecontroller/edit/:id',
array(
'controller' => 'somecontroller',
'action' => 'edit'
),
array(
'id' => '\d+'
)
$router->addRoute($route);
// Route for somecontroller::deleteAction()
$route = new Zend_Controller_Router_Route(
'somecontroller/delete/:id',
array(
'controller' => 'somecontroller',
'action' => 'delete'
),
array(
'id' => '\d+'
)
$router->addRoute($route);