Symfony 1.4, I want a little modified url working (routing?) how?

Question

All links works as I expect but now I have to make a custom URL. Let it be "userprofile/username" where the userprofile is the module name, while username is not an action but the user name. A GET parameter, in other words. How to create a routing like that, and apply to this module only? Sadly I created a /config/routing.yml into that module, and not seems to be taken account.

Answer 1

Your routing.yml file is global for the application, you can't specify a different one for a specific module. This is because Symfony must find a matching route before it knows which module to use.

Try this in your apps/appname/config/routing.yml file:

user_profile:
  url:    /userprofile/:username
  param:  { module: userprofile, action: showUser }

Then in your apps/appname/modules/userprofile/actions/actions.class.php have an action like this:

public function executeShowUser(sfWebRequest $request) {
  $username = $request->getParameter('username');
  //do something!
}

And as always, don't forget to run symfony cc after changing any config file.

Answer 2

so, to be a valuable topic:

# You can find more information about this file on the symfony website:
# http://www.symfony-project.org/reference/1_4/en/10-Routing

user_profile:
  url:    /userprofile/:username
  param:  { module: userprofile, action: showUser }

# default rules
homepage:
  url:   /
  param: { module: index, action: index }

# generic rules
# please, remove them by adding more specific rules


default_index:
  url:   /:module
  param: { action: index }

default:
  url:   /:module/:action/*