Zend Framework routing

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I'm trying to setup some routes for my ZF app but not getting too far. I have a controller 'WebServiceController', it has an index action and a lookupTransaction action. I want to use routes like this:

ws/

ws/lookupTransaction

Ideally I'd like anything with a 'ws/' prefix to go to the WebServiceController and match the action name. I'm not sure how to do that yet but I am trying to get each route working so I added these two routes:

<?php

class Bootstrap extends Zend_Application_Bootstrap_Bootstrap
{

    function _initRoutes()
    {
        $frontController = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance();
        $router = $frontController->getRouter();

        $router->addRoute('ws', new Zend_Controller_Router_Route('ws/', array(
            'controller'    =>  'web-service',
            'action'        =>  'index',
        )));

        $router->addRoute('ws/lookupTransaction', new Zend_Controller_Router_Route('ws/lookupTransaction', array(
            'controller'    =>  'web-service',
            'action'        =>  'lookup-transaction',
        )));
    }

}

The first one works as expected but the second one doesn't, I just get 'Application Error'. What am I doing wrong? Just out of interest, if I remove my two routes and try and go to:

web-service/lookup-transaction

I still get the same error!

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Here is how I can make it work with camel cased action name and camel cased URL.

$router->addRoute('ws', new Zend_Controller_Router_Route('ws/:action', array(
    'controller'    =>  'web-service',
    'action'        =>  'index',
)));
$router->addRoute('ws-lookupTransaction', new Zend_Controller_Router_Route('ws/lookupTransaction', array(
    'controller'    =>  'web-service',
    'action'        =>  'lookup-transaction',
)));

Thanks

Ziad

And does your WebServiceController have a lookupTransactionAction? — wimvds
BTW You could turn on error logging and check the logs for the specific cause (could be that you have the action defined but haven't defined a view/disabled rendering on the view, which will raise an exception). — wimvds
Thanks wimvds, I do have the action but I didn't have the environment setup properly so was not getting the full error messages, that's fixed now. — Ziad
Just wondering: doesn't it make more sense to configure the custom routes with the actual controller name and action name instead of the url'd versions? — Ziad

Tim Fountain Tim Fountain · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-26T14:13:26

Try just this one route as a solution to both problems:

$router->addRoute('ws', new Zend_Controller_Router_Route('ws/:action', array(
    'controller'    =>  'web-service',
    'action'        =>  'index',
)));

the action parameter then serves as a default, so if no action is specified in the URL, index will be used. Otherwise it will route to the action in the URL. So example.com/ws/lookupTransaction will go to lookuptransactionAction() in your controller.

If this still gives you an error, post the error message so we can see what the problem is.

Zend Framework routing

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