Routes with arbitrary number of params

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

Hi all.

I’m trying to build some kind of catalog and I want URLs like this:

/cat1/

/cat1/cat2/

/cat1/cat2/.../.../cat100

I wrote some rules, like this:


<category:[\w\/]+>' => 'catalog/index'

Works good in "direct" way.

But when I’m trying to reverse


CHtml::normalizeUrl((array('catalog/index', 'category' => 'test/test2'))

I get encoded URL: /test%2Ftest2

How can I avoid this?

2

It is being encoded because you’re indeed passing a slash inside a parameter value.

3

You could define a rule for each category-set:




<category1:[\w\/]+>/<category:2[\w\/]+>/<category:3[\w\/]+>' => 'catalog/index'

<category1:[\w\/]+>/<category:2[\w\/]+> => 'catalog/index'

<category1:[\w\/]+> => 'catalog/index'

With the upcoming 1.1.8 release you could make use of a custom url rule class. Read here for details.

4

The question is how to pass a slash and avoid escaping :)

5

Yes, but I was talking about (almost) unlimited tree depth.

Thanks, I’ll check it out.

6

@Angel your post helped me answered my questions here

And now I am having the same passing slash problem as you…

Are there any way to do this without waiting for 1.1.8?

7

Yes! I found out how to pass slashes without encoded with the help of dburlmanager. Its the next best thing before 1.1.8 arrival

See my post

8

Yii 1.1.8 is here already!