As an alternative to mod_rewrite – URL rewriting can be done by PHP as well.
This example translates search engine friendly URLs back into controller actions:
<?php
class UrlRewriter extends Zend_Controller_Plugin_Abstract {
public function routeStartup($request) {
$url = $request->getRequestUri();
/* stripping the .html part - fixes all index pages */
if(stristr($url, '.html')){
$url = substr($url,0,-5);
}
/* dispatching by ids */
if(stristr($url, '/product/')){
$url = '/product?id='
.str_replace('/product/', '', $url);
}
$request->setRequestUri($url);
}
}
This are the last two lines of index.php which load the plug-in:
Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance()->registerPlugin(new UrlRewriter); Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance()->dispatch();
