URL Manager

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
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Hi,

I wanted to direct every page request to pages controller since my site is content managed. I’m checking the URL and querying the database accordingly. I have use the below two methods.




1) 'pages/<sef_url:\w+>'=>'pages/index',

2) 'pages/<sef_url>'=>'pages/index',

The first method did not work and the second one did work. Now I can access the variable in the controller like below.

Actullay I got the idea from this post




$_REQUEST['sef_url']

Everything is fine but my question is what is the meaning of this :\w+ and :\d+. I referred the documentation but I do not understand it properly. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks

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You’ll need to delve into regular expressions for that. Basically ‘\w’ represents word characters (with the plus indicating one or more of them), see this, and ‘\d’ represents decimal digits.

I presume your first expression is therefore not working because you have non-word characters in the url (another / for example).