Re: [fw-general] Custom routes, regular expressions, and slashes

[Ant Cunningham]

Well i have something similar working for a "static" page type module 
where the regex route has a single param which is a path just like the 
OP was discussing. I didnt experience any issues with it on Apache 2.2.

I may be wrong, but I don't think a regex route will work either. It has 
to do with how Apache handles forward slashes, at least from what I 
remember. In order to use unencoded slashes, I had to use a $_GET parameter.

--
Hector


On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 8:16 PM, Ant Cunningham 
<prodigital...@vectrbas-d.com <mailto:prodigital...@vectrbas-d.com>> wrote:

    Why arent you using a regex route?


    wjzfw wrote:

        While this is another viable possibility, surely there is a way
        to do this as
        I originally intended using a regular expression-based custom
        route which
        would gobble up the entire string following a defined controller
        and action?
        I believe my original approach is correct, perhaps it's just a
        matter of
        syntax?

        j


        Hector Virgen wrote:

            You can use a query parameter to use slashes without the
            need to encode
            them:

            /controller/action?myvar=/foo/bar

            In your controller you can access it like a route param:

            $myvar = $this->_request->getParam('myvar');

            It's not as pretty as it would be without the ? but it's a
            lot prettier
            than
            using base64 or dashes.

            --
            Hector


            On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 8:02 PM, wjzfw <w...@wjgilmore.com
            <mailto:w...@wjgilmore.com>> wrote:

                Because it would look ugly, not to mention detract from
                the user's
                ability
                to
                refer to the URL as a navigational aid. Long story short
                the parameter in
                question represents the user's current location within a
                directory-based
                project.

                I could modify the path's URL representation to look like
                this-is-my-path,
                but slashes would be a more realistic representation of
                one's position
                within a file directory.

                j


                ryan.horn wrote:

                    Any reason you cannot just urlencode the parameter
                    name to avoid the
                    complexity?


                    wjzfw wrote:

                        Hi,

                        I'm working on an application which would needs
                        to process a route

                which

                        consists of a parameter containing an unknown
                        number of slashes. For
                        instance, consider the following URL:

                        
http://www.example.com/controller/action/this/is/my/parameter

                        In this example, "controller" is the controller,
                        "action" is the

                action,

                        and "this/is/my/parameter" is the parameter. I'm
                        quite familiar with
                        custom routes, however all attempts to process
                        such a route have

                failed.

                        For instance I've tried this:

                        $route = new Zend_Controller_Router_Route(
                                    '/process/path/:%s',
                                      array(
                                        'controller' => 'process',
                                          'action' => 'path'
                                      ),
                                      array (
                                        1 => 'path'
                                      )
                                    );
                        $router->addRoute('process', $route);

                        Apparently %s doesn't work if slashes are
                        included in the parameter.

                Can

                        somebody shed some light on this problem?

                        Thanks!
                        j


                --
                View this message in context:
                
http://n4.nabble.com/Custom-routes-regular-expressions-and-slashes-tp990107p990123.html
                Sent from the Zend Framework mailing list archive at
                Nabble.com.