[sensorario]

Now url manager work with regular expressions:

array(
    'articles'=>'article/list',
    'article/<id:\d+>/*'=>'article/read',
)

But, ... php is variant. We do not care about type of var. We just need to know var name.

array(
    'articles'=>'article/list',
    'article/<id>/*'=>'article/read',
)

[Jaggi]

Regular expression has a big use in the url manager when you need to build complex urls, an example when creating SEO urls. Your url might be mysite.com/my-pretty-title-234

you may only need the 234 as that is the id (imagine this is a crud controller). Regex is a valuable tool here for parsing such things.

[Rodrigo Coelho]

I agree with Jaggi.
If sensorario's proposition is to be implemented, it could be in the form of a default regex (something like this: ".+?(?=/|$)") for rules without one.

[ekerazha]

Moreover, regexps are not the fastest thing on earth.

[Jaggi]

ekerazha, on 23 May 2012 - 09:11 AM, said:

Moreover, regexps are not the fastest thing on earth.

not the slowest either

[rAWTAZ]

I completely agree that regex definitions in the url rules should be kept. They have a fundamental role in the rules.

[ekerazha]

Jaggi, on 25 May 2012 - 03:05 AM, said:

not the slowest either

But Yii is a "high performance framework" not a "not so slow framework"...

[Da:Sourcerer]

With opinions like that, it could easily turn into a "no features framework" as well

[ekerazha]

Da:Sourcerer, on 26 May 2012 - 04:05 AM, said:

With opinions like that, it could easily turn into a "no features framework" as well

With opinions like that, it's a "no slow features framework"