how to rewrite url in Yii? - php

Question

I have an action named contact in the site controller, so when I open it in the browser, the url displayed as: mysite.com/index.php/site/contact, I want to change it to be just the view name of the action, so it should be mysite.com/contact.php, how to do that ?

Answer 1

To remove the index.php from the url you'll need to add 'showScriptName' => false into your components urlManager array in /protected/config/main.php file:
// application components
'components'=>array(
...
'urlManager'=>array(
'urlFormat'=>'path',
'showScriptName'=>false,
'rules'=>array(
...
),
...
),
...
),
That would make the route for your contant page mysite.com/site/contact. In order to remove the /site you'd need to edit the rules array, something like this may work;
// application components
'components'=>array(
...
'urlManager'=>array(
'urlFormat'=>'path',
'showScriptName'=>false,
'rules'=>array(
...
'<action:\w+>.php'=>'site/<action>',
...
),
...
),
...
),
This would mean the url mysite.com/contact.php will render the site/contact route.
Edit
In answer to your question 'no i want it to render mysite.com/one, where one is a string id':
You've got to be careful with such short url rules, as broad rules like that will be picked up by other paths and reroute the user when you don't want them to be redirected. However, to redirect mysite/one to mysite/mycontroller/myaction?id=one you could use '<id:\w+>'=>'mycontroller/myaction'
But, as I said, be careful, this will reroute everything with a one word path. for example take this scenario:
You have a controller named user
You want to navigate to the index action of the user controller (route user/index)
You navigate to mysite.com/user (which would normally render mysite.com/user/index)
This would now instead redirect the user to mysite/mycontroller/myaction?id=user