Controlling url in Yii: controller/action/id to /id

Question

Can we display url in the format controller/action/id to /id in Yii? Also, one major problem is that I need to do this only on the specific controller/

Answer 1

In my opinion you can not map one customized URL to two or more URL path or action. Like when someone access /my_username the will be redirected to /user/post/ujjwal or /image/display/ujjwal. The application will be confused because of this pattern/rules.

So I recommend you to change the /image/display/ujjwal to another pattern/rules. Like /my_username/image

I use username as the query string for selected username.

'components'=>array(

            .....

            'urlManager'=>array(
            'urlFormat'=>'path',
            'rules'=>array(
                ''=>'user/post',
                '/display'=>'image/display',
                '/'=>'/view',
                '//'=>'/',
                '/'=>'/',
            ),
        ),

            ....

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