Hide GET parameter from URL

Question

How to hide URL GET parameters (http://domain.com/MyFirstYii/page?view=about). I\'ve searched lot of posts. They all are saying about rewrite and URL manager, but i couldn\'

Answer 1

If you intend to use GET and need these parameter, you can't hide it, as this is the way GET works. If you really need to hide the parameter, you must switch to POST, as then parameters will be passed in the request payload instead of in url.

Answer 2

use post method instead of get....that's the best and efficient solution.

to follow up on your query check out this site:

[http://pure-essence.net/2007/06/29/simple-php-path-rewrite/]

Answer 3

\w in regexp means „word“ character and such url part as „my-prety-page“ will NOT match. To hide GET params you must improve your urlManager rules. You can write such a rule for pages using SEF urls:

'<controller:\w+>/<id:\d+>/<title:[^\/]*>/*' => '<controller>/view'

In this case when you enter url

http://example.com/page/12/my-prety-title

a Page controller will be called to perform view action with id and title as arguments. It is the same if you enter this url:

http://example.com/page/view?id=12&title=my-prety-title

The last part /* in rule allows to keep additional params. E.g. if your address is

http://example.com/user/55/john-doe-junior/foo/bar/

in UserController's actionView you can write

echo '<pre>' ;
print_r($_GET);
echo '</pre>' ;
die();

and you'll see

Array
(
    [id] => 55
    [title] => john-doe-junior
    [foo] => bar
)

Answer 4

uncomment these line from main.php

'urlManager'=>array(
                        'urlFormat'=>'path',
                        'showScriptName'=>false,
                        'rules'=>array(
                                'MyFirstYii/post/<view>'=>'MyFirstYii/post', 
                                '<controller:\w+>/<id:\d+>'=>'<controller>/view',
                                '<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>/<id:\d+>'=>'<controller>/<action>',
                                '<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>'=>'<controller>/<action>',
                        ),
                ),

And put .htaccess file in root directory of project and write following code

RewriteEngine on

# if a directory or a file exists, use it directly
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

# otherwise forward it to index.php
RewriteRule . index.php

Answer 5

Add this url rule to the top of your url rules:

'page/<view:\w>' => 'user/page'

I'm assuming the next:

• controller name: UserController
• action name: actionPage

If my assumptions are wrong, please provide the right controller name and action name, so I can fix the answer.

UPDATE: fixed controller name based on comment

UPDATE2:

If you want this to work for all actions in your controller, use:

'<action:\w>/<view:\w>' => 'user/<action>'