1. Use the Zend Framework's application.ini to change the base URL

[development : production]
# Debug output
phpSettings.display_startup_errors = 1
phpSettings.display_errors = 1

# Front Controller
resources.frontController.params.displayExceptions = 1
resources.frontController.baseUrl = "/~user/project"

2. Create a .htaccess for the top level of your project (e.g., devserver/~user/project/). It includes a RewriteRule and RewriteBase to automagically push all requests to the public/ directory so Zend Framework can work its magic.

SetEnv APPLICATION_ENV "development"
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /~user/project
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ public/$0 [L]
</IfModule>

3. Modify the default Zend Framework .htaccess file in the public/ directory of your Zend Framework project (e.g. devserver/~user/project/public/). You're adding a RewriteBase to this as well. This helps keep any links in the project from trying to drop down to the main project path (e.g. devserver/~user/project/).

SetEnv APPLICATION_ENV "development"
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /~user/project
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d [OR]
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^.*$ index.php [NC,L]

The problem is: what happens if a users uploads a file? Absolutely nothing.

The user will never know if a file was uploaded for that record nor he will be able to delete the file if he no longer wants it.

So i tried creating a custom form element, extending Zend Form Element File and redefining the formFile view helper... but, for unknown reasons, $helper variable is never used and formFile view helper is always called.

It looks like that the Zend Form Decorator File is messing up things and calling formFile view helper directly but that code is beyond my understanding.

Has anyone ever managed to solve this problem?

Thanks for your help.

;default/blog/catslug/postslug
routes.blogCatPost.type = "Zend_Controller_Router_Route_Regex"
routes.blogCatPost.route = "blog/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)/([a-zA-Z0-9]+)"
routes.blogCatPost.defaults.module = default
routes.blogCatPost.defaults.controller = blog
routes.blogCatPost.defaults.action = post
routes.blogCatPost.map.catslug = 1
routes.blogCatPost.map.postslug = 2

;default/blog/page/2
routes.blogPage.type = "Zend_Controller_Router_Route_Regex"
routes.blogPage.route = "blog/page/(\d+)"
routes.blogPage.defaults.module = default
routes.blogPage.defaults.controller = blog
routes.blogPage.defaults.action = index
routes.blogPage.map.page = 1
routes.blogPage.defaults.page = 1

And Finally For this URL --  http://tok.local/blog/page/2
Request Parameters:
array (
  'catslug' => 'page',
  'postslug' => '2',
  'module' => 'default',
  'controller' => 'blog',
  'action' => 'post',
)

It's not working. I can't notice whats wrong in it. How to solve this? Please someone help me out ...

My application has a search engine, and I have params in the URL
e.g.: Domaine.com/en/listing/search/city/1
        Domaine.com/en/listing/search/city/1/sector/2

How do I create custom routes for all the possibilities in my URL?

Thank you,
Simon

class Layzend_Route_Post extends Zend_Controller_Router_Route
{

    public function __construct($route, $defaults = array())
    {
        $this->_route = trim($route, $this->_urlDelimiter);
        $this->_defaults = (array)$defaults;
    }

    public function match($path, $partial = false)
    {
        if ($path instanceof Zend_Controller_Request_Http) {
            $path = $path->getPathInfo();
        }

        $path = trim($path, $this->_urlDelimiter);
        $pathBits = explode($this->_urlDelimiter, $path);
       
        if (count($pathBits) < 1) {
            return false;
        }
       
        $max = sizeof($pathBits) - 1;
        $slug = $pathBits[$max];
       
        $pt = new Application_Model_Mapper_Post();
        $rec = $pt->findBy('post_slug',$slug);
        if($rec)
            Zend_Registry::set('post', $rec);
        else
            return new Zend_Exception(404,'Post not found');
       
        return false;
    }
}

In my bootstrap I have coded -

protected function _initRouter()
    {
        $front = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance();
        $router = $front->getRouter();
        $router->addRoute('post', new Layzend_Route_Post('path',
                               array('module' => 'default',
                                        'controller' => 'index',
                                        'action' => 'post')));
    }

Please suggest me any solve. I have searched the web with no specific result.

thanks!

  I had missed including the require_once 'ControllerTestCase.php' in my bootstrap.  After I added that things started to work.  It seems very simple, and to add to this the name of your test suite shouldn't matter.  You can name that whatever you like.  Though if you boot strap your application before including ControllerTestCase.php it takes the name of your test suite and uses it as the file it thinks its looking for.  After I included ControllerTestCase.php I could go back and name my test suite whatever I wanted.

First of all, thank you so much for doing this, Jon. I really enjoy your screencasts and I wouldn't be as "far" (actually, I'm still at the very beginning in ZF development as I am right now.

So, my problem is this: I want to serve a mobile version of my site. In your screencast, you explained how to switch the layout file for this case, but that's not really enough in my case; I would like to use a different layout file and different view scripts in the mobile version, but the same controllers. Also, I want the mobile site to be accessible via m.domain.com.

I figured I'd just use Zend_Controller_Router_Route_Hostname to switch to a different module called 'mobile', but this way I'd have to use separate controllers too, right?

(Since I don't know the ZF from the ground up, but rather bits and pieces from screencasts and tutorials, I get stuck in stuff like that all the time. Now, I can't stand people who are trying to learn things this way (copy/pasting code and then fiddling around with it instead of just learning it properly), but I really can't see any other way with the Zend Framework..)

Partial

<ul id="abHeaderNavbarSub" class="">
    {foreach $container page}
        {if $page->isVisible()}
            <li {if $page->isActive()}class="abSel"{/if}><a href="{$page->getUri()}" title="{$page->getLabel()}">{utf8_decode($page)}</a></li>
        {/if}
    {/foreach}
</ul>

$navigation = $view->navigation()->menu();
$navigation->setPartial( array('partials/menuItem.tpl', 'default') );
$navigation = $navigation->render();

we use zend .ini config file for routes and this look prety easy to me.
I would create a route like down bellow and than simply in controller call some model class which would do a query into database. You have a category and subcategory cool uri, so I think, it shouldn't be a problem.

You can see that we use a modules, so if you have a Zend application without modules, than just don't use the module part of the route

; --- catalog module route ---
routes.catalog.route = :categoryCoolUri/:subcategoryCoolUri/*
routes.catalog.defaults.module = catalog
routes.catalog.defaults.controller = index    ;or some other controller
routes.catalog.defaults.action = index         ;or some other action