Gernerate custom urls within Magento

Question

I am currently looking at trying to generate custom urls/routing using magento, currently I have set a default route in config.xml within the local module.

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Answer 1

The way to do this is with an URL rewrite. In fact, the suffix config you found is probably used by Mage_Catalog to create it's sets of rewrites. I'm approaching this particular feature for the first time so this snippet should be taken with a pinch of salt...

// Creating a rewrite
/* @var $rewrite Mage_Core_Model_Url_Rewrite */
$rewrite = Mage::getModel('core/url_rewrite');
$rewrite->setStoreId($store_id)
        ->setIdPath('portfolios/'.$url_key)
        ->setRequestPath('portfolios/'.$url_key.'.html')
        ->setTargetPath('portfolios/index/action/id/'.$url_key)
        ->setIsSystem(true)
        ->save();

A new rewrite is needed for each possible path.

Edit; I've added a setIdPath because it might be necessary.