this part of yii2 configuration is kind of tricky, so i would really appreciate if anyone tells me the proper way to do it and why what i have tried is wrong..
i have a module called Admin, this module has few controllers and of course it takes the main layout for the view structures so all the links generated in the layout are available in the module as well, all seems nice but one thing, if the links are rendered in the module, all of them will have the module route in all these links.. i need them to be routed outside the module..
all the links i need them to be routed outside of the module have this pattern:
<controller>/<action>
while the module has this pattern:
admin/<controller>/<action>
so far i have tried adding an Url rule in the config like this:
'rules'=>[
'<module:\w+>/<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>'=>'<module>/<controller>/<action>',
//Also tried this: admin/<controller\w+>/<action:\w+>
]
but all of the links are still being generated in the same way.. when links are in generated in the module, they all have this pattern: admin/<controller>/<action> when they are just supposed to be something like this: #root/<controller>/<action>
Assuming you still have the default url rules, your urls should start with a leading slash e.g /site/about instead of site/about. From the docs for Url::toRoute() :
A route may be either absolute or relative. An absolute route has a leading slash (e.g. /site/index), while a relative route has none (e.g. site/index or index)
...
If the route has no leading slash (e.g. site/index), it is considered to be a route relative to the current module and will be prepended with the module's uniqueId.
Example for custom rules from a personal proyect:
'urlManager' => [
'class' => 'yii\web\UrlManager',
'showScriptName' => false,
'enablePrettyUrl' => true,
'rules' => array(
'register' => 'user/registration/register',
'login' => 'user/security/login',
'logout' => 'user/security/logout',
'home' => 'site/index',
'support' => 'contact/submit',
'faq' => 'site/faq',
'<controller:\w+>/<id:\d+>' => '<controller>/view',
'<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>/<id:\d+>' => '<controller>/<action>',
'<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>' => '<controller>/<action>',
),
],
This goes to the main config file in your app.
Related
I have a page like domain.com/calendar/2001/8/22, it can be visited by
domain.com/calendar/2001
domain.com/calendar/2001/8
domain.com/calendar/2001/8/22
It will show different content depending on URL.
I configured the urlManager rules:
'calendar/<year:[\-\d]+>' => 'calendar/view',
'calendar/<year:[\-\d]+>/<month:[\d]+>' => 'calendar/view',
'calendar/<year:[\-\d]+>/<month:[\d]+>/<day:[\d]+>' => 'calendar/view',
It's OK. But when I visit domain.com/calendar/2008/8/ (with the trailing slash, my website users often visit with trailing slash), I get 404.
How to configure the urlManager to handle rules with and without trailing slash?
You should use UrlNormalizer to redirect "slash URLs" to "non-slash URLs" (or vice versa):
'urlManager' => [
'enablePrettyUrl' => true,,
'normalizer' => [
'class' => 'yii\web\UrlNormalizer',
],
],
It will redirect all "slash URLs" to "non-slash URLs". If you want to use "slash URLs", you should set UrlManager::$suffix to /, then UrlNormalizer will redirect "non-slash URLs" to "slash URLs".
You can find more info about normalization in the guide.
Add 'suffix' => '/', just after 'enablePrettyUrl' => true,. Be aware that it will change all links on your site.
I have these possible urls:
Having country at beginning:
peru/blog/search/my-search
peru/blog/tag/my-tag
peru/blog/my-blog-post
peru/blog/
peru/
Without Country at beginning:
blog/search/my-search
blog/tag/my-tag
blog/my-blog-post
blog/
/
How it works:
As I understand url management there are 2 processes:
When you write an url on the browser. In this case Yii tries to convert this url into a route and params.
When you are creating an url using Yii::$app->urlManager->createAbsoluteUrl, in example.
According to these, I am writing some rules in the urlManager, first the general config:
'urlManager' => [
'class' => 'yii\web\UrlManager',
'enablePrettyUrl' => true,
'showScriptName' => false,
'rules' => []
]
Now the rules:
'<country:peru|france>/<module:[\w\-]+>/tag/<tag:[\w\-]*>' => '<module>/index',
'<country:peru|france>/<module:[\w\-]+>/search/<search:[\w\-]*>' => '<module>/index',
'<country:peru|france>/<module:[\w\-]+>/<slug:[\w\-]*>' => '<module>/index',
'<country:peru|france>/<module:[\w\-]+>' => '<module>/index',
'<module:[\w\-]+>/tag/<tag:[\w\-]*>' => '<module>/index',
'<module:[\w\-]+>/search/<search:[\w\-]*>' => '<module>/index',
'<module:[\w\-]+>/<slug:[\w\-]*>' => '<module>/index',
'<module:[\w\-]+>' => '<module>/index',
As you notice from the rules, I pass a parameter "module" in the url, and I want that one to be used as controller.
In the case of country I had to add some possible matches, if not I was not able to make it work.
With the above rules, It works when I input a "pretty" url on the browser like:
http://example.com/blog/search/my-search
But my issue starts If try to create an url:
Yii::$app->urlManager->createAbsoluteUrl(["blog/index", "module" => "blog"]
Rule: '<module:[\w\-]+>' => '<module>/index'
Url Expected: http://example.com/blog
Url Generated: http://example.com/blog?module=blog
It seems it does not fall in the rule, not sure.
If I try to create an url:
Yii::$app->urlManager->createAbsoluteUrl(['blog/index', 'module' => 'blog', 'slug' => 'my-post'])
Rule: '<module:[\w\-]+>/<slug:[\w\-]*>' => '<module>/index'
Url Expected: http://example.com/blog/my-post
Url Generated: http://example.com/blog/my-post?module=blog
From these 2 cases, I notice it is adding the controller to the url
Questions:
In my rule I use I think it collides with predefined variables like: , . I have tried change it, but still same issue.
In the case of country I had to add possible options: Peru, france to make it work, if not it did not work, how can I make it work without those options?
The url match depends on the amount of query params or does it count controller and action too?
How can I make empty parameters be ignored for the rules, when creating an url?
Why is adding controller to the url?
Is the rules order correct?
I think I found a solution to all my questions:
So far I have not found predefined keywords for rules: <controller>, <action>, <module> are just name of variables, if someone knows something different, please let me know.
Yii URL manager (and probably any URL manager) can only match the amount of parameters we send and match it against rules, not the variable names, so if we send:
http://example.com/peru
http://example.com/es
Yii only understands that we are sending one parameter, so if in the rules we have:
'<language:[\w\-]*>' => 'language/index'
'<country:[\w\-]*>' => 'country/index'
Yii will use the first rule that matches, so in this case would be <language> rule which will match. Then Yii will pass a variable $language with "peru" as value to LanguageControlle, which is wrong.
So in order to help Yii we have to add patterns to help it use correct rule, we could add a pattern to match only any value with 2 characters or specific values list like:
<language:es|en> => 'language/index'
<country:[\w\-]*> => 'country/index'
In this case if we have "peru" as value, it will not match first rule, so it will use second one.
Answered above.
Ignore empty parameters, we can use + instead of * in the rules, in that way empty parameters will not match.
Remove the controller, we need to add a rule at the end:
'' => 'site/index'
Question ordering, it should start with the rules with most parameters and inside that group order them from the less generic to more generic rules.
At the end my rules are:
'<base:es|en>/<module:ideas|user|blog>/tag/<tag:[\w\-]*>' => '<module>/index',
'<base:es|en>/<module:ideas|user|blog>/search/<search:[\w\-]*>' => '<module>/index',
'<base:es|en>/<module:ideas|user|blog>/<slug:[\w\-]*>' => '<module>/index',
'<base:es|en>/<module:ideas|user|blog>' => '<module>/index',
'<base:es|en>/<slug:contact>' => 'site/index',
'<base:es|en>' => 'site/index',
'<module:ideas|user|blog>/tag/<tag:[\w\-]*>' => '<module>/index',
'<module:ideas|user|blog>/search/<search:[\w\-]*>' => '<module>/index',
'<module:ideas|user|blog>/<slug:[\w\-]*>' => '<module>/index',
'<module:ideas|user|blog>' => '<module>/index',
'<slug:contact>' => 'site/index',
'' => 'site/index',
I hope this saves time to someone in the future.
The problem is how you create URL. If <module> is available in route pattern (value in rules array), then you don't need to pass it manually. It will be detected from route.
Sou you should create your URLs like this:
Yii::$app->urlManager->createAbsoluteUrl(['blog/index', 'slug' => 'my-post'])
Yii::$app->urlManager->createAbsoluteUrl(['blog/index']);
I'm making a yii2 site in 2 languages (for now) using yii's native i18n module, but how can I add multilanguage support for the action URLs?
For instance one of my actions is category/slug and in English, it will show as
http://example.com/category/chair
but in spanish it has to be shown as
http://example.com/categoria/silla
and so on for other languages shown in the future
right now im manually adding my routes like:
'urlManager' => [
'enablePrettyUrl' => true,
'showScriptName' => false,
'rules' => [
'<alias:\w+>' => 'site/<alias>',
'marca/<slug>' => 'site/brand',
'categoria/<slug>' => 'site/category',
'brand/<slug>' => 'site/brand',
'category/<slug>' => 'site/category',
],
],
Do i need to manually route every action to its correct controller or is it possible to add a more automated form using yii::t() function?
you will need to write your own UrlRule class, implementing yii\web\UrlRuleInterface and configure your UrlManager.
read more here.
basically it is about "translating" a given request like '/categoria/silla' to your internal url ['site/category', 'slug' => $slug, 'lang' => $lang] in your UrlRule's 'parseRequest' method. 'createUrl' is the other way round.
What will be the rules for my pretty url if I have the following scenario:
links like this where parameters may vary.
domain/?bt=<token>&e=<email>
or
domain/?lt=<token>&e=<email>
then should be processed in a controller/action. ie. mycontroller/get
Also, parameters should be accessible by $_GET inside the action.
the simplest way is based on the use of urlHelper
use yii\helpers\Url;
$myUrl = Url::to(['your_controller/your_action', 'bt' => 123, 'e' => 'myemail#gmail.com']);
Using the urlHelper function Url::to .. the url you need is properly formed depending of the urlManager configuration you have set in your config file
and the param a manager as show in the sample like entry in an array.
The post or get method is related to the type of metho you have in your ulr call if not other values are specified the url is formed as a get
and you can obtain the values you need in $_GET['bt'] and $_get['e']
http://www.yiiframework.com/doc-2.0/yii-helpers-url.html
http://www.yiiframework.com/doc-2.0/yii-web-urlmanager.html
http://www.yiiframework.com/doc-2.0/guide-runtime-routing.html
'urlManager' => [
'enablePrettyUrl' => true,
'showScriptName' => false,
'rules' => [
'<controller:\w+>/<id:\d+>' => '<controller>/view',
'<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>/<id:\d+>' => '<controller>/<action>',
'<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>' => '<controller>/<action>',
'' => 'call-backs/get',
'unsubscribes' => 'unsubscribes/get',
],
],
#scaisEdge, thank you for answering my question. maybe my question isn't that clear but this is the solution I made for my question after a hard find of clues and tips online.
All I wanted was that when a user clicks on a link, hitting the main page/main domain, it will go to my yii project (intended to be a webservice or an API like one) then will be handled by a precise controller and action.
'' => 'call-backs/get'
the code above answers the question. Cheers.
I am trying to make some url rules in Yii 2 so I can access an action from the controller like this:
controller/action/1 -> controller/action (with a parameter)
I tried some rules but they won't work in my modules (www.example.com/midend, www.example.com/backend).
So, if I want to access www.example.com/controller/action/1 it's works just fine but if I want to access www.example.com/midend/controller/action/1 it return 404.
These are the rules for modules:
'<module:\w+>/<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>/<id:\w+>' => '<module>/<controller>/<action>',
'<module:\w+>/<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>' => '<module>/<controller>/<action>',
'<module:\w+>/<controller:\w+>/<id:\w+>' => '<module>/<controller>',
These are the rules without modules:
'<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>/<id:\w+>' => '<controller>/<action>',
'<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>' => '<controller>/<action>',
'<controller:\w+>/<id:\w+>' => '<controller>',
I already tried to replace <module:\w+> with midend.
Assuming your ids are integers, you should simply replace your rules by this one :
'<controller>/<action>/<id:\d+>' => '<controller>/<action>',
It will work for :
www.example.com/controller
www.example.com/controller/action
www.example.com/controller/action/1
www.example.com/module (assuming you have a default controller)
www.example.com/module/controller
www.example.com/module/controller/action
www.example.com/module/controller/action/1