Creating a URL Hierarchy

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

I have a number of objects that I would like to present in URLs as a hierarchy. For example, I would like to map the following:

  • CoursePage => /course/page

  • CourseResource => /course/resource

  • CourseCertification => /course/certification

I’m sure this is possible, but I can’t quite follow the documentation and have seen no examples. I’m not sure where I would need to set this, and what to set. I am not sure what is meant by a “route”.

Any help would be appreciated.

2

Try adding this to the /config/main.php file:

Find the ‘// application components’ array (‘components’=>array…).

Add the following ‘rules’ to ‘urlmanager’:


'urlManager'=>array(

	'rules'=>array(

		'CoursePage'=>'course/page',

		'CourseResource'=>'course/resource',

		'CourseCertification'=>'course/certification',

	),

),

Let me know how you get on :)

3

Thank you. I tried that, with various permutations on the case of the letters, but always get the message:

Unable to resolve the request "course/page".
4

If you want to access your course/page action by the url http://site.com/CoursePage, then you need a configuration for the url manager like this:




'urlManager'=>array(

    'urlFormat'=>'path',

    'showScriptName'=>false,

    'rules'=>array(

        'CoursePage'=>'course/page',

    ),

),

Also you’ll need to edit .htaccess:




Options +FollowSymLinks

IndexIgnore */*

RewriteEngine on


# If a directory or a file exists, use it directly.

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d


# Otherwise forward it to index.php.

RewriteRule . index.php

Now you can generate links in your application using CHtml::link():




echo CHtml::link('Course page', array('/course/page'));