14 Comments to “Creating custom Zend_Controller routes”

1. Marko
   January 26, 2009 at 6:33 am | Permalink

   These are some of the best ZEND screencasts I’ve seen. Good work!

2. iceangel89
   April 30, 2009 at 11:09 pm | Permalink

   hey i tried using custom routes in my application like

   $router->addRoute(
   ‘aed’,
   new Zend_Controller_Router_Route(‘/:module/:controller/:action/:id’, array(‘module’ => ‘:module’, ‘controller’ => ‘:controller’, ‘action’ => ‘:action’, ‘id’ => “:id”))
   );

   but it does not work, as in when i try to go “/” it says

   Invalid controller specified (:controller)

   Request Parameters:

   array(4) {
   ["module"]=>
   string(7) “:module”
   ["controller"]=>
   string(11) “:controller”
   ["action"]=>
   string(7) “:action”
   ["id"]=>
   string(3) “:id”
   }

   so i guess it removes all other routes?

3. Rich
   August 14, 2009 at 3:35 pm | Permalink

   Hi,

   Ive followed the tutorial but having problems somewhere im my configuration.

   I have everything the way it is in the videos, except when I type localhost/ it brings up the main page and if I want to access list.phtml or any others I need to type localhost/index/list

   If I type localhost/index/jfejfoi I get an app error withing the template, however if I type localhost/list it gives a 404 outside of the application.

   Do you know what I could be doing wrong?

4. Rich
   August 16, 2009 at 12:33 pm | Permalink

   Apparently apache was ignoring my .htaccess file which delt with the rewrite engine. So I configured a user.conf which set it right!

5. Jonathan
   December 1, 2009 at 2:43 pm | Permalink

   Another way to solve Rich’s problem is to edit the http.conf and change “AllowOverride None” to “AllowOverride All” ( you must restart Apache for this to take affect ). This will allow an .htaccess file to override the http.conf file. Another issue that I had was that when I typed in “http://localhost/index/index” or “http://localhost/index/list” or “http://localhost/list/user” the css was not being loaded. To solve this, I changed the “appendStylesheet” argument from “css/main.css” to “../css/main.css” ( along with all of the other css sheets ). I’m not sure if this has to do with my specific setup or not.

6. Jeremy
   April 15, 2010 at 11:27 am | Permalink

   This was EXACTLY what I was looking for! Thanks so much for the very clear explanation. The docs do a good job of explaining and giving code samples but they never tell you where to put the code.

7. Christy John
   May 18, 2010 at 3:54 am | Permalink

   I’m using ZF 1.10 and I believe the framework has gone a long way since you have posted this. I believe the way in which some of the methods return values might have changed.

   I think so because while running the code I was getting “User picked: Array”. On doing a var_dump($user) I noted it is indeed returning an array. So I had to change my code like this to get the code to work as you proposed

   if($this->getRequest()->getParams(“users”)) {
   $user = $this->getRequest()
   ->getParams(“users”);
   if($user['users']) {
   $this->view->user = “User picked : ” . $user['users'];
   } else {
   $this->view->user = “User not selected”;
   }
   }

   Also the way bootstrapping works also changed in 1.10. I wrote the route in index.php inside public. I hope what I have understood is correct and you’ll give a clarification on the matter. Thanks

8. __fabrice
   September 7, 2010 at 12:39 pm | Permalink

   Hello there,

   Great tutorial….. and….vous avez un bon accent en Français .

   Fabrice

9. Vijay
   September 18, 2010 at 10:50 pm | Permalink

   Hey thanks for the tuts.

   As of zf 1.10 i use a slightly different way of defining routes
   Add the following to your application.ini file under application/configs

   resources.router.routes.listOnIndex.route = /list
   resources.router.routes.listOnIndex.defaults.module = default
   resources.router.routes.listOnIndex.defaults.controller = index
   resources.router.routes.listOnIndex.defaults.action = list

   resources.router.routes.listOnIndexWithUsers.route = /list/:users
   resources.router.routes.listOnIndexWithUsers.defaults.module = default
   resources.router.routes.listOnIndexWithUsers.defaults.controller = index
   resources.router.routes.listOnIndexWithUsers~.defaults.action = list

   you will get the exact same result. Don’t know the difference between adding to the application.ini file vs the index.php ( refer Christy John’s comment)

   Hope that helps!

10. Vijay
    September 18, 2010 at 10:53 pm | Permalink

    whoops a quick edit to my last code:
    change the last line from:
    resources.router.routes.listOnIndexWithUsers~.defaults.action = list

    to

    resources.router.routes.listOnIndexWithUsers.defaults.action = list

11. Rafael
    September 21, 2010 at 1:31 pm | Permalink

    Good Job!

    Thanks from Brazil

12. Enrico
    October 23, 2010 at 12:58 pm | Permalink

    Ok.. I’ve made in my bootstrap:

    protected function _initRoute() {

    $ctrl = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance();
    $router = $ctrl->getRouter();

    $router->addRoute(
    ‘userOnUsers’,
    new Zend_Controller_Router_Route(‘/users/:user’, array(
    ‘module’ => ‘default’,
    ‘controller’ => ‘user’,
    ‘action’ => ‘users’
    )
    )
    );
    }

    Now I have a database with users.. But what if the user in the url does not exist?

    http://www.site.nl/users/this-user-does-not exist

    Then I want a 404 message: Page Does Not Exist. How and where do I do that?

13. MG7282
    February 8, 2011 at 11:05 am | Permalink

    I am getting this error:

    Fatal error: Call to a member function setViewSuffix() on a non-object in
    when I navigate to http://localhost/list

    any idea why?

14. Fadel
    January 14, 2012 at 8:45 pm | Permalink

    Hi,

    how i can get this url using router on application.ini

    /comedie/la-fabrique-des-sentiments-streaming-261.html
    ( ps : /categorie/the-movie-name-id.html )

    thank you