How to hide action name on URL and replace by a fictitious one?

Question

'urlManager'=>array(
   'urlFormat'=>'path',
   'rules'=>array(
     'gii'=>'gii',
     'gii/<controller:\w+>'=>'gii/<controller>',
     'gii/<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>'=>'gii/<controller>/<action>',
     '<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>/<param:\w+>'=>'<controller>/<action>',
     '<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>/<id:\d+>'=>'<controller>/<action>',
     '<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>'=>'<controller>/<action>',
     '<controller:\w+>'=>'<controller>/index',
    ),
    'showScriptName'=>false,

Those are the rules I have applied.

If I do:

http://something.dev/experience/listByColor/Red

I get all experiences with color Red.

actionListByColor($color);

This works.

I wish the same to work when the user does:

http://something.dev/experience/color/Red

I've tried those rules:

'experience/color/'=>'experience/listByColor/'

But I always get:

System couldn't found the requested action "color".

How can I make this work?

It seems that urlFormat is NOT fit for this, because it seems to expect a valid path on the left side of => and, on this case, we haven't any valid path there.

No other way?

Answer 1

You forgot the params/id part. Use the appropriate rule below:

'experience/color/<param:\w+>'=>'experience/listByColor/'
'experience/color/<id:\d+>'=>'experience/listByColor/'
'experience/color/<color>'=>'experience/listByColor/'