How to make user profile link like facebook for my

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I am developing a web page using Yii framework, I want to do url management like facebook. This is my url www.mywebpage.com/user/profile/id/10 but i dont want to show this url like this, i would like to show like this www.mywebpage.com/yogi can i do it in Yii? please anyone help me.

Answer 1

I think all the information that you need is here: http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/guide/1.1/en/topics.url

Answer 2

Check this article out to get started: http://yiitutorials.net/easy/easy-url-rewriting-with-yii

You will bascially be storing the users custom URL in the database. So an example URL would be http://example.com/user/userurl

In your main config you could set up a rule like:

user/<customurl:.+> => 'user/view' //second part is the controller/action

That rule defines that a URL with 'http://example.com/user/', the part after the slash can be accessed by a GET variable with the name 'customurl'. You can then access the users custom URL like so:

$_GET['customurl'];

And query the user record something like so:

$user = User::model()->find("customurl = '".$_GET['customurl']."'");

As mentioned below, here is an example from a real website. In this example the URL looks like so: http://website.com/blog/{post_title}/{post_id}

So the rule for this would be something like:

london-blog/<post_title:.+>/<post_url:.+> => 'blog/viewpost' 

So in our blog controller, we have an action called viewpost (see above how the rule is pointing to this controller/action?), which would look something like:

public function actionViewpost(){
    $blogpost = Blog::model()->find("post_title = '".$_GET['post_title']."'");
    ...
}

So any URL that has the format london-blog/some_value/some_value will point to the controller action as specified in the config. You can then access the some_value parts using the variable names defined in the config (the bits in the < :.+>)

Hope that helps!