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zzal

Hi all, I scratch my head for a couple of days now with that problem. I have a special case for URL routing. Here's the case: we'll have a game, sort of, on which several organisations will have there own branding. The problem is that the URL scheme demanded by my client goes like this: "http://example.com/brandname/home/index"; in english,
"http://example.com/brandname/accueil/index"; in french. And this should call the same controller/action. Also, the /brandname/ segment in the URL is optional.
Here's some more examples with there corresponding controllers/actions, if that can help clarify my problem: http://example.com/home/about (controller: home; action: about)
http://example.com/abrand/home/about (controller: home; action: about; param: brand)
http://example.com/anotherbrand/home/about (controller: home; action: about; param: brand)
http://example.com/accueil/apropos (controller: home; action: about)
http://example.com/abrand/accueil/apropos (controller: home; action: about; param: brand)
etc. How can I possibly do this? Thanks a lot!

Harro

You can try to use a regex to deal with this:

'(.*?/)?home/about' => 'home/about/$1',
'(.*?/)?accueil/apropos' => 'home/about/$1',

You can then define your method as

public function action_about($brand = null)
{
}

and $brand will contain the brand name is one was included in the URL.

zzal

ok, thanks, it's working! So using this method means that I have to declare all possible URI request in the route... Well.... If found another way of doing this but it required me to override a couple of the core classes. So that way I only need to fill the route config with french translations. Thanks, we'll decide which way is best for us!

Harro

Nothing to do about it, there is no way to know to what you want to route /this/that/other. Is 'this' a brand name'? In what language is 'that/other'? Where should it map to?

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