Url Manager Issue

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

Hey,

I’ve been searching all around Stackoverflow and YII forums, there are many answers, which didn’t help me…

This is my case,

I have controller called: proj and an action called view.

It gets: [b]id/b, [b]name/b.

The desired name gets sometimes with special chars such as: [+,!#$%^&*-]

So when I’m running createUrl() function it returns me not so friendly url.

For example:

qa-mysite/proj/1029/Conservation+of+the+Vermont+Salt+Pan+System%2C+Hermanus%2C+South+Africa.

id = 1029

name = Conservation of the Vermont SaltPan System, Hermanus, South Africa.

I want the result to be:

qa-mysite/proj/1029/conservation-of-the-vermont-salt-pan-system-hermanus-south-Africa

So actually i need to strip the special chars and change the delimiter between spaces to "-" instead of "+".

My current configurations of the curlManager are:

‘urlManager’=>array(

        'urlFormat'=>'path',


        'showScriptName'=>false,


        'appendParams' => true,


        'rules'=>array(


        //array('proj/view/<name:\w+>', 'pattern'=>'proj/<id:\d+>'),


            //'<controller:\w+>/<id:\d+>'=>'<controller>/view',


            'proj/<id:\d+>/<name:\w+>'=>array('proj/view', 'caseSensitive'=>false),


            '<controller>/<id:\d+>/<name:.*?>'=>'<controller>/view',


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


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


        ),


    )

CreateUrl example:

$this->createUrl(‘proj/view’, array(‘id’ => $data->id, ‘name’ => $data->name));

After the urls will be changed I need to do 301 redirects of the old ones to the new-seo-friendly urls.

Note: I cannot do hardcoded str_replace.

Many thanks for any help :]

2

Here’s how I handle it:




Yii::app()->createUrl('/news/view',

        array('newsid'=>$article->Id, 'slug'=>TextHelper::getSlug($article->Title)))

And the helper method:




    public static function getSlug($text)

    {

        $text = preg_replace('/[^A-Z0-9]+/i', '-', $text);

        $text = strtolower(trim($text, '-'));

        return $text;

    }
3

Where did you put this slug handler function ?

4

In a class called TextHelper in components.

5

Ok, It did the job.

The second section of my question was:

After the urls will be changed I need to do 301 redirects of the old ones to the new-seo-friendly urls.

TNX bro :]