wildcards in url manager?

kaygee79 · December 2, 2010, 5:00am

Is it possible to add a rule in urlManager to route all fist level folder traffic to the same controllers?

I need www.root.com/test1/user/create and www.root.com/test2/user/create to both point to the same controller/action

currently trying:

‘/<slug:[A-Z]+>/<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>’=>’<controller>/<action>’,

basically it’s almost like I need the urlManager to ignore the first folder, kinda like a wildcard

www.root.com/*/controller/action

is this possible? am I on the right track? Yes I’m a noob here, please be gentle

jacmoe · December 2, 2010, 5:49am

It’s probably easy enough:

Prepend your existing rules with test1 and test2 - and that’s it:




'/test1/<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>'=>'<controller>/<action>',

'/test2/<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>'=>'<controller>/<action>',

But, if you want it to be totally variable, you simply need to pass ‘slug’ around as get parameter.

Then what you already wrote (slug) would work (AFAIK).

kaygee79 · December 2, 2010, 4:33pm

That’s what I thought too, but I get an error:

Error 404

Unable to resolve the request "test2/user/create"

Not sure if it has something to do with the fact that the yii isn’t in the root directory but in its own folder root/yii. Still when I do

‘/yii/<slug:[A-Z]+>/<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>’=>’<controller>/<action>’,

I still get the same error…

andy_s · December 2, 2010, 4:38pm

test1 won’t match [A-Z]+

kaygee79 · December 2, 2010, 5:06pm

Right, /test/ doesn’t work either, case sensitivity is off, however /TEST/ doesn’t work either…

jacmoe · December 2, 2010, 6:01pm

If slug is defined, then it should work.

You need to call your actions with a slug parameter otherwise the UrlManager does not see the route.

kaygee79 · December 2, 2010, 6:06pm

Can you explain "You need to call your actions with a slug parameter" please? In the url?

jacmoe · December 2, 2010, 6:34pm

Just like:


CHtml::link('Glorious Action', $this->createUrl('do/something', 

array('slug' => 'test1', 'id' => $model->id)));

Your actionSomething in the DoController should take a slug parameter.

I believe you should see the right url then.

Can’t hurt to try anyway.

jacmoe · December 2, 2010, 6:39pm

For reference, here’s my UrlManager rules:


        	'rules' => array(

            	'/welcome/' => 'site/index',

            	'/projects/' => 'project/index',

            	'/projects/<identifier>' => 'project/view',

            	'/projects/<identifier>/issues' => 'issue/index',

            	'/projects/<identifier>/issue/<_a:(create)>'   => 'issue/<_a>',

            	'/projects/<identifier>/member/<_a:(create)>'   => 'member/<_a>',

            	'/projects/<identifier>/version/<_a:(create)>'   => 'version/<_a>',

            	'/projects/<identifier>/repository/<_a:(create)>'   => 'repository/<_a>',

            	'/projects/<identifier>/issueCategory/<_a:(create)>'   => 'issueCategory/<_a>',

            	'/projects/<identifier>/issue/<action:\w+>/<id:\d+>'   => 'issue/<action>',

            	'/projects/<identifier>/member/<action:\w+>/<id:\d+>'   => 'member/<action>',

            	'/projects/<identifier>/version/<action:\w+>/<id:\d+>'   => 'version/<action>',

            	'/projects/<identifier>/repository/<action:\w+>/<id:\d+>'   => 'repository/<action>',

            	'/projects/<identifier>/issueCategory/<action:\w+>/<id:\d+>'   => 'issueCategory/<action>',

            	'/projects/<identifier>/<_a:(activity|roadmap|issues|newissue|code|settings)>'   => 'project/<_a>',

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

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

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

            	'comment/feed'=>array('comment/feed', 'urlSuffix'=>'.xml', 'caseSensitive'=>false),

            	'/issues/' => 'issue/index',

            	),

I pass ‘identifier’ around and that makes it possible to have urls like:

/projects/myproject/issue/view/31, etc.

That should be the same principle as your slug parameter, I think.

I don’t get those nice urls if I don’t pass identifier in the url.

kaygee79 · December 2, 2010, 9:37pm

Hmm, so I changed the rules to

‘<slug>/<controller:\w+>/<id:\d+>’=>’<controller>/view’,

‘<slug>/<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>/<id:\d+>’=>’<controller>/<action>’,

‘<slug>/<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>’=>’<controller>/<action>’,

so now www.root.com/test2/site/index works fine and so does www.root.com/test2/site/contact and all the default pages that Yii initially sets up. However I generated a user model using gii, and so user doesn’t resolve properly. www.root.com/test2/user get a Error 404 Unable to resolve the request “test2/user”… Am I missing something in the UserController?

jacmoe · December 2, 2010, 9:57pm

Try adding these:


'/<slug>/user/<_a:(create)>'   => 'user/<_a>',

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

As you can see, I had to do all kinds of hacks to get my routes to work.

I don’t know why Yii couldn’t sort out the catch-all rules, but if that’s the way Yii wants it…

kaygee79 · December 3, 2010, 3:36am

Thanks jacmoe! That totally works, but now I’m worried about all these rules I have to write, I think I read somewhere that having a lot of rules downgrades performance?

jacmoe · December 3, 2010, 11:19am

A bit, but don’t worry if you don’t have a lot of rules.

I’ve seen much worse.

Maybe you could remove the general case rules. If you know what controllers you’ll use the slug in, you don’t need the catch-all rules.

kaygee79 · December 3, 2010, 2:54pm

No I don’t, since they aren’t working Thanks for your help again!