[jwallz]

i'm trying to do a simple url in the form of controller and seo friendly title, ie:

www.somedomain.com/company/general-electric

i want the request mapped to the company Controller's View action where i'll take the seo-friendly company name - general-electric and query against my company table's seo-friendly-url column for a match

what would the pattern be for this in the url mamanger?

[ololo]

hi, it'll be something like this

// config
    'rules' => array(
        '/company/<companyName:\w+>' => 'company/view',
    ),

// in the controller
public function actionView($companyName) {
    // ... 

[nicocin]

This should work:
'company/<name:\w+>'=>'company/view',
Inside the actionView() method of your CompanyController use $_GET['name'] to get the company name.

Check out the Guide. It's explained pretty well!

[jwallz]

nicocin, on 04 March 2011 - 09:29 AM, said:

This should work:
'company/<name:\w+>'=>'company/view',
Inside the actionView() method of your CompanyController use $_GET['name'] to get the company name.

Check out the Guide. It's explained pretty well!

that's exactly what i tried but no luck. I get a system generated 404 saying it can't find the requested action 'company-name'. Meaning it's trying to map the company name to an action.

i have:

'rules'=>array(
'companies'=>'companies/index',
'companies/<seo_url_name:\w+>'=>'companies/view',

then in my view action:

public function actionView()
{
if(isset($_GET['seo_url_name']))
{
$company=Post::model()->find('seo_url_name=?', array($_GET['seo_url_name']));

[jwallz]

ololo, on 04 March 2011 - 09:22 AM, said:

hi, it'll be something like this

// config
    'rules' => array(
        '/company/<companyName:\w+>' => 'company/view',
    ),

// in the controller
public function actionView($companyName) {
    // ... 

thanks I tried that but no luck. I get a 404 error: The system is unable to find the requested action "general-electric".

[jwallz]

Got it. The problem was with the regular expression \w+. It only matches on alpha numeric characters. When i changed my rule to this it started working: 'companies/<seo_url_name:[a-zA-Z0-9-]+>'=>'companies/view',