Yii r1.8 Using Custom URL Rule Classes

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

I am trying to take advantage of the Custom URL Rule Classes in Yii r1.8

I am trying to take something that looks like orgs/view/id/24 and instead display the name of the org as identified by Name in the db (i.e. changing www.mysite.com/orgs/view/id/24 to www.mysite.com/jaysshop dynamically ). Unfortunately I am not getting it to work.

Here is my code:


<?php 

class OrgsUrlRule extends CBaseUrlRule

{

	public $connectionID = 'db';


	public function createUrl($manager,$route,$params,$ampersand)

	{

		if ($route==='orgs/view/id')  //even tried 'orgs/view' or 'orgs/index'

		{

			if (isset($params['Name']))

				return $params['Name'];

			else if (isset($params['Name']))

				return $params['Name'];

		}

		return false;  

	}


	public function parseUrl($manager,$request,$pathInfo,$rawPathInfo)

	{

		if (preg_match('%^(\w+)(/(\w+))?$%', $pathInfo, $matches))

		{

		}

		return false;  

	}

}

?>

urlManager:


array(

  'class' => 'application.components.OrgsUrlRule',

  'connectionID' => 'db',

),
2

Anyone else tried this yet? Or can pick out what the problem is with mine?

Thanks

3

What does not work createUrl() or parseUrl()

What are the urlRules before this one…

4

Here is all that is above…


'urlManager'=>array(

  'urlFormat'=>'path',

  'showScriptName'=>false,

  'rules'=>array(

    ''=>'site/index', 

    array(

      'class' => 'application.components.OrgsUrlRule',

      'connectionID' => 'db',

    ),

Right now all I am trying to do is get the url created (i.e. go from orgs/view/id/24 to jaysshop)

5

What is you code you use to create a link?

6

Am I missing something here? I thought that is the purpose of


class OrgsUrlRule extends CBaseUrlRule

that I posted above along with the urlManager rule. Do I need something else somewhere?

7

I was thinking on the code to create/display a link…

For example




<?php

   echo CHtml::link('link',array('orgs/view','id'=>24,'Name'=>'dada'));

?>

would create a link to "yourapp/data"

8

Ok mdomba, I get what you are saying but I thought this was a dynamic way of creating urls. According to the docs and included example of manufacturer/model that is what it appears to me. With all the orgs in my db I don’t want the users to see the full url of www.mysite.com/orgs/view/id/24. Instead www.mysite.com/jaysshop

9

Or I don’t understand you… or you don’t understand me…

One thing is the url rule to create a link… another thing is to create a link…

In your applications… there are many places where the links are created… and to be created url rules are used…

When you want to create a rule for "orgs/view" like in my example above… your custom rule will be used…

In your custom rules the $params array are the parameters sent to the link…

so again for my example I sent ‘id’ and ‘Name’…

then in the custom rule you can use $param[‘id’] to get the value of id and $param[‘Name’] to get the value of Name

I hope you understand it now …

Your example of turning "www.mysite.com/orgs/view/id/24" to "www.mysite.com/jaysshop" is not good…

what would be the link for another record like 20 - "www.mysite.com/orgs/view/id/20"?

10

Thanks for the further explanation mdomba. That does help my understanding of the url creation process but not the inability of having the urlManager rules handling what I want to accomplish.

Maybe I am just not understanding the capabilities of Custom URL Rule Classes. With this statement in the docs though


"For example, in a car dealer website, we may want to support the URL format like

`/Manufacturer/Model`, where `Manufacturer` and `Model` must both match some data in

a database table."

I read that as being what I want to accomplish.

Others have figured out how to accomplish what I want with a variable. Maybe I need to go that route then and assign a variable to my orgs.Name? Although I would rather stick to this added functionality in r1.8 if it does indeed support what I am after.

11

Anybody else have any ideas with this?