URLManager Rule: Hide Controller from URL

evstevemd · March 7, 2015, 5:45pm

I have this URL Manager rule


           	

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

Which rewrites my URLs to something like


http://localhost/yii2/web/blog/post/hosanna

blog being module, post is controller and hosanna is GET parameter (called blog)

Now I want to get rid of post in URL and have something like


http://localhost/yii2/web/blog/hosanna

which is much better for me but I have no idea how do I do it!

Any help is appreciated!

Vojtech · March 8, 2015, 7:45pm

You can leave out the name of the controller from the URL and specify it in the route:


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

In case this rule applies only to the Blog module it can also look like this:


'blog/<blog:\w+>'=>'blog/post/index',

I’d just consider renaming the “blog” parameter to something more apt (e.g. “name”, “slug”, …).

evstevemd · March 8, 2015, 9:38pm

Vojtech:

You can leave out the name of the controller from the URL and specify it in the route:
'<module:blog>/<blog:\w+>'=>'<module>/post/index',
In case this rule applies only to the Blog module it can also look like this:
'blog/<blog:\w+>'=>'blog/post/index',
I’d just consider renaming the “blog” parameter to something more apt (e.g. “name”, “slug”, …).

That was it! Thanks a lot!

as per that naming, I find it comfortable to do that way!