Monday, June 6, 2011

Walkthrough on how to use Zend_Controller_Router_Route_Chain

I was a little confused at first look of what Zend_Controller_Router_Route_Chain does so here's my 2 cents on explaining this feature.

I use Zend_Config_Xml so I will write my example as XML.

Say we have a URL like this: http://supercars.com/automobile/make-audi/model-r8/year-2011
that we want to route and we wanted to use the http://supercars.com/automobile as our base url.

Here is what we would do to implement router chaining on the above URL.

<routes>
    <Automobile>
        <type>Zend_Controller_Router_Route</type>
        <route>automobile</route>
        <defaults>
            <controller>automobile</controller>
            <action>index</action>
        </defaults>
        <chains>
            <Make>
                <type>Zend_Controller_Router_Route</type>
                <route>make-:make</route>
                <defaults>
                     <action>make</action>
                </defaults>
                <reqs>
                    <make>[\w]+</make>
                </reqs>
                <chains>
                    <Model>
                        <type>Zend_Controller_Router_Route</type>
                        <route>model-:model</route>
                        <defaults>
                            <action>model</action>
                        </defaults>
                        <reqs>
                            <model>[\w]+</model?
                        </reqs>
                        <chains>
                                <Year>
                                <type>Zend_Controller_Router_Route</type>
                                <route>year-:year</route>
                                <defaults>
                                    <action>year</year>
                                </defaults>
                                <reqs>
                                    <year>[\d]{4}</year>
                                </reqs>
                            </Year>
                        </chains>
                    </Model>
                </chains>
            </Make>
        </chains>
    </Automobile>
</routes>



Assuming we are only going to use controller Automobile.

Route name "Automobile-Make" correspond to URL:
http://supercars.com/automobile/make-Audi

Route name "Automobile-Make-Model" corresponds to URL:
http://supercars.com/automobile/make-Audi/Model-R8

Route name "Automobile-Make-Model-Year" corresponds to URL:
http://supercars.com/automobile/make-Audi/Model-R8/year-2011

You get the groove? Also notice the route tags inside the chains, it is only specific to specific URI for example: "make-:make" instead of rewriting the whole "route" to "automobile/make-:make" which is being appended. Also note that route "Automobile" will not exist here.

Another neat thing is you can create other routes on the same chain level so if you want to do something like: http://supercars.com/automobile/make-Audi/page-8 you declare a route the same as on the route "Model" level as you will see below.

        <chains>
            <Make>
                <type>Zend_Controller_Router_Route</type>
                <route>make-:make</route>
                <defaults>
                     <action>make</action>
                </defaults>
                <reqs>
                    <make>[\w]+</make>
                </reqs>

                <chains>
                    <Page>
                        <type>Zend_Controller_Router_Route</type>
                        <route>page-:page</route>
                        <defaults>
                            <action>page</action>
                        </defaults>
                        <reqs>
                            <make>[\d]+</make>
                        </reqs>

                    </Page>
                    <Model>
                        <type>Zend_Controller_Router_Route</type>
                        <route>model-:model</route>
                        <defaults>
                            <action>model</action>
                        </defaults>
                        <reqs>
                            <model>[\w]+</model?
                        </reqs>

                    </Model>
                </chains>

            <Make>

         </chains>

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