It works for me. What's needed, though, is a regexp and then rules to
ensure that the user-defined slug will match when it's created.
/* matches underscore, hyphen, and lowercase alpha
*/
Router::connect('/users/:user_slug',
array('controller' => 'users', 'action' => 'view'),
array('user_slug' => '[-_a-z]+')
);
Router::connect('/users/:user_id',
array('controller' => 'users', 'action' => 'view'),
array('user_id' => '[0-9]+')
);
Then, in the controller:
function view($id = null)
{
if (empty($id))
{
if (isset($this->params['user_slug']))
{
/* either find the user or the user id from the slug,
whichever is preferred
*/
$this->set('user',
$this->User->findBySlug($this->param['user_slug']));
}
else if (isset($this->params['user_id']))
{
// ...
}
else
{
// error
}
}
else
{
// find by ID
}
}
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Jonathan Snook
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:52 PM, mwcbrent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I'm looking to setup a system that will do rewrites, this is
>> similar to myspace or other sites that allow you to setup a page and
>> change the url to something personalized.
>> www.mysite.com/user/232434
>> to
>> www.mysite.com/user/myhomepage
>
> Reusing /user/* for both IDs and custom labels is going to be a pain.
> I'd recommend coming up with something different for the /user/ part
> to more readily differentiate between the two structures. For example:
>
> Router::connect('/person/:label', array('controller'=>'users',
> 'action'=>'bylabel'), array('label'=>'.*')); (or something like that)
>
> function bylabel(){
> $user = $this->User->findByLabel($this->params['label']);
> [...other code here...]
> }
>
> That's a pretty rough idea.
>
>> Is there a way to get the routing system to check the database? Or
>> should i just not even use the routing system and query the db with
>> 'myhomepage' instead of the user id passed in the url?
>>
>> Thanks for the feedback.
>>
>> >
>>
>
> >
>
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