Complete URL management for a Web application involves two aspects:
- When a user request comes in terms of a URL, the application needs to parse it into understandable parameters.
- The application needs to provide a way of creating URLs so that the created URLs can be understood by the application.
For a Yii application, these are accomplished with the help of CUrlManager.
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Creating URLs
Although URLs can be hardcoded in controller views, it is often more flexible to create them dynamically:
$url=$this->createUrl($route,$params);
where $this refers to the controller instance; $route specifies the route of the request; and $params is a list of GET parameters to be appended to the URL.
By default, URLs created by createUrl is in the so-called get format. For example, given $route='post/read' and $params=array('id'=>100), we would obtain the following URL:
/index.php?r=post/read&id=100
where parameters appear in the query string as a list of Name=Value concatenated with the ampersand characters, and the r parameter specifies the request route. This URL format is not very user-friendly because it requires several non-word characters.
To remove index.php
To remove index.php from the url you must add the .htaccess file in your root.
RewriteEngine on
# if a directory or a file exists, use it directly
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# otherwise forward it to index.php
RewriteRule . index.php
After adding .htaccess go to protected/config/main.php file add showScriptName=>false.
'urlManager'=>array( 'urlFormat'=>'path', 'rules'=>array( '<controller:w+>/<id:d+>'=>'/view', '<controller:w+>/<action:w+>/<id:d+>'=>'/', '<controller:w+>/<action:w+>'=>'/', ), ),
To hide index.php
To hide "index.php" from the url on a website, add an .htaccess file to your web root, with this text:
Options +FollowSymLinks
IndexIgnore */*
RewriteEngine on
# if a directory or a file exists, use it directly
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# otherwise forward it to index.php
RewriteRule . index.php
and in /protected/config/main.php, set:
‘urlManager’=>array(
‘urlFormat’=>’path’,
‘showScriptName’=>false,
‘caseSensitive’=>false,