Kohana 3: using maintainable routes

Question

I'm using Kohana v3 for a web project, and today I found myself writing this:

echo Html::anchor('user/view/'.$user->id, "See user's profile");

If I rename the action_view method in the User controller, the link will be broken. To avoid this, I created a function in the User model that returns the URL used for viewing the user's profile:

echo Html::anchor($user->url_view(), "See user's profile");

There is another (cleaner) way to do this (similar to Django's url() and {% url %})?

PS: Excuse my English.

Answer 1

Yes you want reverse routing using the route name. Try something like this:

echo Html::anchor(
   Route::get('your_route_name')->uri(array('id'=>$user->id)), 
   "See user's profile"
);

Answer 2

what do you need is called reverse routing. you have a route "name" (with parameters eventually) and you associate it with a module/action pair or with a whatever/path.

then you use this route name instead of the direct controller/action path so you can change the name of the actions as you like in future.

here's a page that describes this. be aware that in kohana 2.x reverse routing is not supported (so when he refers to 2.3 he really means 3.x)