Hi all,

For a few days I've been using PHP on Trax just to investigate it's possibilities and acquire some skills in using it.

I was wondering if it would be possible to pass the id argument as first 'parameter' in the url.

Say I'm running my PHP on Trax application on http://trax.localhost/trax
That would make my 'main' controller available at http://trax.localhost/trax/main
When I want to give an id as parameter I'd use http://trax.localhost/trax/main/index/1

Now, what I want is to be able to have a url like this:
http://trax.localhost/trax/1
So I won't have to enter the controller, nor the action.

Is it possible to accomplish this with PHP on Trax?

Kind Regards,
qistoph

Yes you can do this easily:

in the config/routes.php file:

Dear johnpipi,

I've tried your suggestion (with Trax from PEAR and with Trax from SVN) and all I get is:
Controller 1 not found

Error Message: Failed to load any defined routes

With in the log-file:


If I change the line, this is what I get:
$router->connect("/:id", array(":controller" => "main"));
Loads main/index, but without any id argument.


$router->connect("/:id", array(":controller" => "main", ":action" => "index", ":id" => 2));
Loads main/index, but without any id argument.


I hope you've got another suggestion.

Kind Regards,
qistoph

I did a test and in my routes.php I have these


This worked for me id was set. but it sets the id in the request so $_REQUEST['id'] is how you access it in the controller.

The only problem if you had a route like that with only :id it basically overrides everything else and thinks everything is this route. So what you should do is make up a name that no other controller has /:id and use that such as:

$router->connect("pictures/:id", array(":controller" => "pictures", ":action" => "show") );

If you went to the url http://www.phpontrax.com/pictures/24
This would load the pictures controller, the show action, and $_REQUEST['id'] would be 24

Hope this helps.

Thanks johnpipi.

With a little more debugging I discovered the problem was in my 'url_prefix'.
In config/environment.php an example is given in this format:
Trax::$url_prefix = "~username";

When I added a trailing slash to the Trax::$url_prefix the routes worked fine.

Thanks for your assistence.