Change route in Zend Framework to hide key

Question

I am building a website with Zend Framework but I'm very new at it and still don't really get it.

I have a URL like:

http://localhost/public/directory/category/catid/art

What I want is to create a route for the URLto look like:

 http://localhost/public/directory/category/art

I have done simple routes like:

$frontController = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance();
$router = $frontController->getRouter();

// TERMNS  ROUTE
$route = new Zend_Controller_Router_Route_Static(
   'termns',
    array('controller' => 'Index', 'action' => 'termns')
);

$router->addRoute('terms', $route);

Is there a way, building on that for me to control the other routes? Thanks!

Answer 1

From category/catid/art to category/art. Add this method to your Bootstrap.php:

protected  function _initRouter()
{
    $router = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance()->getRouter();
    $router->addRoute('category/:catid', new Zend_Controller_Router_Route('category/:catid',array(
        'module'     => 'default',
        'controller' => 'category',
        'action'     => 'index' // Check your action and controller
));

And in controller's action for category/testid you can use $this->_getParam('catid') for getting testid.