Creating URL for pagination, ordering and filters - ZF

Question

I everyone who's reading this,

I was on the Internet 5 minutes ago and I found a URL that was pretty nice:

www.exemple.com/blog/rating.asc/2

Which is related to:

blog => controller/action/module or anything
rating => ordered by
asc => order of list
2 => current page

I would like to know how I can create similar URL using the Zend_Controller_Router_Route class of Zend Framework.

For my website, it would be like:

www.exemple.com/portfolio/date.asc/2

or

www.exemple.com/blog/author.desc/ (page optional, default 1)

and

www.exemple.com/blog/ (default order: date.asc, page: 1)

NOTE: I'm not friendly with Regex, so I would like to forbid that or if someone who the exact expression, it would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Hey I'm not sure if you are use ini for configuration but here is how I'd do it if I had a:

module     => blog
controller => article
action     => list
// Parameter to get from the request in the controller
// Note that those are the defaults in case you don't provide any parameters in the url
sortBy => author
order  => asc
page   => 1   

in the ini file:

; /www.exemple.com/blog/articles/author/desc/2
resources.router.routes.whateverroutname.route = /blog/articles/:sortBy/:order/:page
resources.router.routes.whateverroutname.defaults.module = blog
resources.router.routes.whateverroutname.defaults.controller = article
resources.router.routes.whateverroutname.defaults.action = list
resources.router.routes.whateverroutname.defaults.sortBy = author
resources.router.routes.whateverroutname.defaults.order = asc
resources.router.routes.whateverroutname.defaults.page = 1

Hope this helps :)