Help With Understanding Url Rules

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

My requirement:

  • module/controller/key (string of 32 characters, numbers+letters)------This should go to the index method of this controller that is defined like "public function actionIndex($key)"

  • module/controller/action------This should route normally to appropriate method of this controller

  • module------This should go to the default module controller and to its index method

My current rule set:


'<module:\w+>/<controller:\w+>'=>'<module>/<controller>/index',

'<module:\w+>/<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>'=>'<module>/<controller>/<action>',

'<module:\w+>/<controller:\w+>/<key:\w+>'=>'<module>/<controller>/index',

'<module:\w+>/<action:\w+>'=>'<module>/default/<action>',

'<module:\w+>'=>'<module>/default/index'

If I interchange rule 2 and 3, my 1st requirement works but any method name is also sensed as a get parameter and sent to the index. If the rules remain the same my 1st requirement doesn’t work.

It’s confusing! :blink:

2

If the length is guaranteed to be 32 characters and there are no other parameters, you could try this:




'<module:\w+>/<controller:\w+>'=>'<module>/<controller>/index',

'<module:\w+>/<controller:\w+>/<key:\w{32}^>'=>'<module>/<controller>/index',

'<module:\w+>/<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>'=>'<module>/<controller>/<action>',

'<module:\w+>/<action:\w+>'=>'<module>/default/<action>',

'<module:\w+>'=>'<module>/default/index'

I’m not sure whether the ^ character to denote the end of the string is required. It depends how Yii parses the rules.

3

Yup that works, so my method name should be less than 32 characters, right?

Now my rules look like:


'<module:\w+>/<action:\w+>'=>'<module>/default/<action>',

'<module:\w+>/<controller:\w+>'=>'<module>/<controller>/index',

'<module:\w+>/<controller:\w+>/<key:\w{32}>'=>'<module>/<controller>/index',

'<module:\w+>/<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>'=>'<module>/<controller>/<action>',

'<module:\w+>'=>'<module>/default/index',

In this case:

module/controller/action -------- Works! But,

module/action ------------------- Doesn’t work. This should go to the default controllers index method.