nice and SEO friendly url zend framework php

Question

What's the best approach to generate nice URLs using Zend Framework?

Without Zend Framework and with MVC pattern I'd just use .htaccess:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond  %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond  %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule  ^(.*)$ index.php?request=$1 [QSA,L]

Then parse the request parameters in PHP.

I'm now using Zend Framework and trying with zend_route in my bootstrap, like suggested here and documented on Zend website .

My task is to convert a request: example.com/pets-new-york into example.com/index/search/?q=pets%20new%20york (current)

I can't make it work, how do I manage non existing files (-f) and dirs (-d) like it works in the first .htaccess example? More generally, what's the best approach to create nice URLs with Zend Framework with non-existing directories?

Answer 1

Please try with this. The following code will be create SEO Friendly url

Note: You have to be make sure that rewrite apache module should enabled on your server

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

or

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -s [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^.*$ index.php [NC,L]
</IfModule>

Let me know if you need any help.