In the following configuration is it possible to use a regular expression or any other method besides specifing each route to use controller thisisatest when URL is this-is-a-test/action? Would I have to build/extend my own Router class?
<?php
return array(
'_root_' => 'home/index', // The default route
'_404_' => 'error/404', // The main 404 route
//'hello(/:name)?' => array('welcome/hello', 'name' => 'hello')
);
/* end of config/routes.php */
The way I implemented this was to extend \Fuel\Core\Router using the following. The router class works with a URI which has been passed through the methods in security.uri_filter from config.php so rather than modifying the router class methods I had my router extension add a callback to that array.
class Router extends \Fuel\Core\Router
{
public static function _init()
{
\Config::set('security.uri_filter', array_merge(
\Config::get('security.uri_filter'),
array('\Router::hyphens_to_underscores')
));
}
public static function hyphens_to_underscores($uri)
{
return str_replace('-', '_', $uri);
}
}
You could just as easily add it straight to the configuration array in app/config/config.php by way of a closure or a call to a class method or a function.
The downside of this is that both /path_to_controller/action and /path-to-controller/action will work and possibly cause some duplicate content SEO problems unless you indicate this to the search spider. This is assuming both paths are referenced somewhere i.e. a sitemap or an <a href=""> etc.