Yii clean url with id and name

Question

I want my url's to have the following patter:

http://example.com/controller/view_id/title_name, like SO:

http://stackoverflow.com/question/1/title

Config.php:

'urlManager'=>array(
        'urlFormat'=>'path',
        'showScriptName'=>false,
        'appendParams' => true,
        'rules'=>array(
            'user/<id:\d+>/<name:\w+>'=>array('user/view', 'caseSensitive'=>false),
            '<controller>/<id:\d+>/<name:.*?>'=>'<controller>/view',
            '<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>/<id:\d+>'=>'<controller>/<action>',
            '<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>'=>'<controller>/<action>',
        ),
    )

UserController:

public function actionView($id)
{
   $this->render('view', array(
     'model' => $this->loadModel($id),
   ));
}

I am trying to redirect user/view/1 to user/1/my_username The url user/1/username is redirecting me to Error 400 invalid request. What am I missing?

Answer 1

if your user and question controller has action view.Here view should be the name of action.

Try this:

'urlManager'=>array(
    'urlFormat'=>'path',
    'showScriptName'=>false,
    'appendParams' => true,
     'caseSensitive'=>false,//use case sensitivity here 
    'rules'=>array(
        '<controller>/<view_id:\d+>/<title_name:[\w -\.]+>'=>'<controller>/view',
        '<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>/<id:\d+>'=>'<controller>/<action>',
        '<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>'=>'<controller>/<action>',
    ),
)

If your Url is like this

http://stackoverflow.com/question/1/title

When you hit this url.In main.php this line will read your url.

'<controller>/<view_id:\d+>/<title_name:[\w -\.]+>'=>'<controller>/view',
//view_id and title_name you can change there name.

It will work like this:

 <controller>=question
 <view_id:\d+>=1
 <title_name:[\w -\.]+>=title

and you will redirect to <controller>'s function actionView() automatically.You can get the url values like this $_GET['view_id'] AND $_GET['title_name'] in actionView().

You have to Do this:

public function actionView() 
{ 
   $this->render('view', array( 'model' => $this->loadModel($_GET['view_id']))); 
 }