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brknetwork

Hi, Is there an easy way to use vanity URLs, without hacking or extending FUEL? e.g. <a href="http://www.twitter.com/username">http://www.twitter.com/username</a>; or <a href="http://www.twitter.com/username">http://www.twitter.com/username</a>/ Both should route to "profile" contoller's (just an example) "action_index" action with the "username" parameter. How this can be achieved, with fallback to 404 (and other controllers) if no "username" exists in database. Thanks!

Jelmer Schreuder

You can use the 404 route as a catch all. Something like this:

'404'	=> 'profiles/view',

You'll have to access the arguements through Uri::string() or Uri::segment(1) though, they won't be given to your Controller_Profiles->view() method. And add a action_404 method as well to the same controller and put something like below in the view() method:

$user = Model_Profile::find_by_username(Uri::segment(1));
if (empty($user))
{
    return $this->action_404();
}

Or if you put the action_404 method in another controller:

Output::redirect('controllername/404');

brknetwork

Hi Jelmer, thank you very much indeed!

It's great to see that FUEL does handle this behavior easily.

Logicbox

Saw this in the amiafucktard example earlier. Doesn't this do the same without hacking the 404? https://github.com/philsturgeon/amiafucktard.com/blob/master/fuel/app/config/config.php

'routes'	=> array(
		// This is the default route.  We use a "#" here so that we do not have any
		// reserved routes.
		'#'		=> 'profiles/random',
		'404'	=> 'errors/404',

		'profiles/(:any)' => 'profiles/$1',
		'errors/(:any)' => 'errors/$1',
		'(:any)' => 'profiles/view/$1'
	),

Jelmer Schreuder

Very different, even though they appear similar. The $route approach only allows the controllers which are defined in routing to be used. Because anything will match that :any rule (except the routes you define before it). The 404 approach, is not a hack - it is by design a catch-all as well. In such a case it will try 1. routes, 2. normal routing and only third will it fall back to the 404 route. Thus you won't need to manually register each new controller you create in your routes.

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