ZF2 use child route if child and parent matches

Question

Is it possible in ZF2 routing to have a generic parent route, matching all public actions, but override specific areas with a custom child-route and controller?

What I want:

/parent => matches parent controller
/parent/edit => matches parent controller editAction
/parent/childsection => matches child controller
/parent/childsection/edit => matches child controller editAction

I couldn't come up with any configuration that fits my needs. Following the config I thought would work - but ZF2 routes terminates at the parent route cause childsection could be an action too.

'parent' => array(
    'type' => 'Segment',
    'may_terminate' => true,
    'options' => array(
        'route' => '/parent[[/:action][/:id]]',
        'constraints' => array(
            'action' => '[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_-]*',
            'id' => '[0-9]+',
        ),
        'defaults' => array(
            'controller' => 'Application\Controller\Parent',
            'action' => 'index',
        ),
    ),
    'child_routes' => array(
        'child' => array(
            'type' => 'Segment',
            'options' => array(
                'route' => '/childsection/:action[/:id]',
                'constraints' => array(
                    'action' => '[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_-]*',
                    'id' => '[0-9]+',
                ),
                'defaults' => array(
                    'controller' => 'Application\Controller\Child',
                ),
            ),
        ),
    ),
),

The only thing that worked was a minimal parent literal route and 2 child routes - 1 generic and 1 specific for the child section. But in this case I have to redirect or generate urls using ->toRoute('parent/default'...)

Is there any other elegant solution or is this simply not possible?

grizzm0 grizzm0 · Accepted Answer · 2016-05-10T13:52:16

I always tell people that they shouldn't use such regex for controller/action. Try using something more restricted like (edit|delete) instead and keep adding whitelisted actions to the list.

ZF2 use child route if child and parent matches

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