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Re: Facebook Vanity URLs
by Nick M
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I used the router route hostname and chained it with a standard router:
routes.user.type = "Zend_Controller_Router_Route_Hostname"
routes.user.route = "www.domain.com"
routes.user.chains.following.type = "Zend_Controller_Router_Route"
routes.user.chains.following.route = ":username/following/*"
routes.user.chains.following.defaults.controller = view
routes.user.chains.following.defaults.action = following
routes.user.chains.followers.type = "Zend_Controller_Router_Route"
routes.user.chains.followers.route = ":username/followers/*"
routes.user.chains.followers.defaults.controller = view
routes.user.chains.followers.defaults.action = followers
routes.user.chains.username.type = "Zend_Controller_Router_Route"
routes.user.chains.username.route = ":username/*"
routes.user.chains.username.defaults.controller = view
routes.user.chains.username.defaults.action = index
mapes911 wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been wondering this for a while now about how Twitter/Myspace and now
> Facebook creates what they are calling "Vanity URLs"
>
> So, their users use their username as their url.
>
> ex. www.mydomain.com/myusername would route to their user profile.
>
> So my question is, how can you accomplish this with Zend Framework AND still
> have other controller/action pairs as well?
>
> Is there a way to setup a custom route where you check to see if that first
> param in the URL is a username, then if not.. attempt to use default
> routing?
>
> I have been using default routing completely in the site I am building so I
> am very new to the router.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help!
>
routes.user.type = "Zend_Controller_Router_Route_Hostname"
routes.user.route = "www.domain.com"
routes.user.chains.following.type = "Zend_Controller_Router_Route"
routes.user.chains.following.route = ":username/following/*"
routes.user.chains.following.defaults.controller = view
routes.user.chains.following.defaults.action = following
routes.user.chains.followers.type = "Zend_Controller_Router_Route"
routes.user.chains.followers.route = ":username/followers/*"
routes.user.chains.followers.defaults.controller = view
routes.user.chains.followers.defaults.action = followers
routes.user.chains.username.type = "Zend_Controller_Router_Route"
routes.user.chains.username.route = ":username/*"
routes.user.chains.username.defaults.controller = view
routes.user.chains.username.defaults.action = index
mapes911 wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been wondering this for a while now about how Twitter/Myspace and now
> Facebook creates what they are calling "Vanity URLs"
>
> So, their users use their username as their url.
>
> ex. www.mydomain.com/myusername would route to their user profile.
>
> So my question is, how can you accomplish this with Zend Framework AND still
> have other controller/action pairs as well?
>
> Is there a way to setup a custom route where you check to see if that first
> param in the URL is a username, then if not.. attempt to use default
> routing?
>
> I have been using default routing completely in the site I am building so I
> am very new to the router.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help!
>
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