ZF2 Routing as in ZF1

Question

How can I make the routing automatically work for everything in the ZF1 structure?

module/controller/action/par1Name/par1Val/par2Name/par2Val/

I read the information about routing, but the way I see it, I'd have to add all actions manually, and I see a problem with optional params...

Answer 1

You can set up a wildcard child_route, at least on a per-controller basis, to get zf1-like routes:

'products' => array(
                'type' => 'Zend\Mvc\Router\Http\Segment',
                'options' => array(
                    'route' => '/products[/:action]',
                    'defaults' => array(
                        'controller' => 'Application\Controller\Products',
                        'action' => 'index'
                    )
                ),
                'may_terminate' => true,
                'child_routes' => array(
                    'wildcard' => array(
                        'type' => 'Wildcard'
                    )
                )
            )

Then you can use, for instance, the url() view helper:

$this->url('products/wildcard',array('action'=>'edit','id'=>5,'foo'=>'bar');

which will produce a url like /products/edit/id/5/foo/bar

Answer 2

Here is the standard router I use for everything I port over from ZF1 -> ZF2 keep in mind that you still need to add the controllers as invocables which i have at the top of the list. Also please keep in mind that I always keep my actual application at the bottom of the list so that all other modules will have their routing defined before it hits the application. However this makes the routing work just like ZF1... I see a lot of people asking about this so I figured I'd post! With the setup below, I can just add my new controller (Support below...) And then open a browser and go to... /support, and it works just fine.

return array(
    'controllers' => array(
        'invokables' => array(
            'Application\Controller\Index' => 'Application\Controller\IndexController',
            'Application\Controller\Support' => 'Application\Controller\SupportController',
        ),
    ),
    'router' => array(
        'routes' => array(
            '*' => array(
                'type' => 'Segment',
                'options' => array(
                    'route' => '/[:controller[/:action]]',
                        /* OR add something like this to include the module path */
                        // 'route' => '/support/[:controller[/:action]]',
                    'constraints' => array(
                        'controller' => '[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_-]*',
                        'action' => '[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_-]*',
                    ),
                    'defaults' => array(
                        '__NAMESPACE__' => 'Application\Controller',
                        'controller'    => 'Index',
                        'action'        => 'index',
                    ),
                ),
                'may_terminate' => true,
                'child_routes' => array(
                    'wildcard' => array(
                        'type' => 'Wildcard'
                    )
                )
            ),
        ),
    ),
    'view_manager' => array(
        'display_not_found_reason' => true,
        'display_exceptions' => true,
        'doctype' => 'HTML5',
        'not_found_template' => 'error/404',
        'exception_template' => 'error/index',
        'template_map' => array(
            'layout/layout' => __DIR__ . '/../view/layout/layout.phtml',
            'application/index/index' => __DIR__ . '/../view/application/index/index.phtml',
            'error/404' => __DIR__ . '/../view/error/404.phtml',
            'error/index' => __DIR__ . '/../view/error/index.phtml',
        ),
        'template_path_stack' => array(
            __DIR__ . '/../view',
        ),
    ),   
    /* Service manager / translator etc stuff go HERE as they change less frequently */
);

I edited the route above to include a full module path as a comment which i missed in my initial post.