How to set a (UTF8) modifier for RegEx of a RegEx Route in Zend Framework 2?

Question

I\'m having troubles with (german) special characters in URIs and want to try to resolve it with a RegEx Route and a PCRE pattern modifier for UTF-8 u.

Answer 1

Since I already had this open here's a handler that solves the problem.

getUri();
        // path decoded before match
        $path = rawurldecode($uri->getPath());

        // regex with u modifier    
        if ($pathOffset !== null) {
            $result = preg_match('(\G' . $this->regex . ')u', $path, $matches, null, $pathOffset);
        } else {
            $result = preg_match('(^' . $this->regex . '$)u', $path, $matches);
        }

        if (!$result) {
            return null;
        }

        $matchedLength = strlen($matches[0]);

        foreach ($matches as $key => $value) {
            if (is_numeric($key) || is_int($key) || $value === '') {
                unset($matches[$key]);
            } else {
                $matches[$key] = $value;
            }
        }

        return new RouteMatch(array_merge($this->defaults, $matches), $matchedLength);
    }
}

Assuming you place the file in Application/Mvc/Router/Http/UnicodeRegex your route definition should look like this

'router' => array(
    'routes' => array(
        // ...
        'city' => array(
            'type'  => 'Application\Mvc\Router\Http\UnicodeRegex',
            'options' => array(
                'regex' => '/catalog/(?[\p{L}]+)',
                // or if you prefer, your original regex should work too
                // 'regex' => '/catalog/(?[a-zA-Z0-9_-äöüÄÖÜß]*)',
                'defaults' => array(
                    'controller' => 'Catalog\Controller\Catalog',
                    'action'     => 'list-sports',
                ),
                'spec'  => '/catalog/%city%',
            ),
            'may_terminate' => true,
        ),
    ),
),