URL rewriting with Yii framework - php

Question

I have a url like
www.example.com/food/xyz
for which I have written a rule like this in the main.php (config folder)
'urlManager'=>array(
'urlFormat'=>'path',
'showScriptName'=>false,
'caseSensitive'=>false,
'rules'=>array(
'/food/<name:\w+>/' => 'food/index/',
'<controller:\w+>/<id:\d+>'=>'<controller>/view',
'<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>/<id:\d+>'=>'<controller>/<action>',
'<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>'=>'<controller>/<action>',
),
),
This means that internally "xyz" will be passed as a parameter to the actionIndex of my FoodController according to the rule
class FoodController extends Controller
{
public function actionIndex($name){
//some code here
}
public function actionItems(){
//some code here
}
}
The problem i'm facing is that I have another method in the same class called actionItems and when I use the URL
www.example.com/food/items
it calls the actionIndex and passes "items" as a parameter
Any idea on how to solve this?
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Your first rule should be for the items
'/food/items'=>'food/items',
'/food/<name:\w+>/' => 'food/index/',
Alternatively, I would rather use an alias to split the use of the controller such that all 'food'/<:name>' urls are differentiated from '/food/action' urls for example:
'/food/<name:\w+>/' => 'food/index/',
'/foods/<action:\w+>' => 'food/<action>'

Answer 2

Try this, just change order:
'urlManager'=>array(
'urlFormat'=>'path',
'showScriptName'=>false,
'caseSensitive'=>false,
'rules'=>array(
'<controller:\w+>/<id:\d+>'=>'<controller>/view',
'<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>/<id:\d+>'=>'<controller>/<action>',
'<controller:\w+>/<action:\w+>'=>'<controller>/<action>',
'/food/<name:\w+>/' => 'food/index/'
),
),