Allow Parameterizing Routes in routes.php

[engram-design]

We often want to setup routes for account pages, but because these aren't entries, we need to setup custom routes. Take the following route rules into consideration for being able to edit a Campaign on the front-end.

return [
    'campaigns/edit/<slug:(?:[^\/]*)?>' => ['template' => 'campaigns/edit'],
    'campaigns/edit/<slug:(?:[^\/]*)?>/profile' => ['template' => 'campaigns/edit/profile'],
    'campaigns/edit/<slug:(?:[^\/]*)?>/subscriptions' => ['template' => 'campaigns/edit/subscriptions'],
    'campaigns/edit/<slug:(?:[^\/]*)?>/donate' => ['template' => 'campaigns/edit/donate'],
    'campaigns/edit/<slug:(?:[^\/]*)?>/notifications' => ['template' => 'campaigns/edit/notifications'],
];

Here, we want to allow user to edit their campaign from the front end, hence the campaigns/edit template. But because a campaign has lots of content, we want to break it up into different templates and routes. You can see these additional templates.

What would be amazing is to support Yii's Parameterizing Routes with templates, as they do for controller actions.

Then we could do something far more efficient like:

return [
    'campaigns/edit/<slug:(?:[^\/]*)?>' => ['template' => 'campaigns/edit'],
    'campaigns/edit/<slug:(?:[^\/]*)?>/<page:(?:[^\/]*)?>' => ['template' => 'campaigns/edit/<page>'],
];

Is this possible now, and if not - do you think this makes valid sense? Or just let me know if I'm going about this the wrong way.

[brandonkelly]

Yes that’s already possible. Any params that were matched from the URL pattern will be available as template variables, e.g. slug.

[engram-design]

Right, so we'd need to use rules like:

return [
    'campaigns/edit/<slug:(?:[^\/]*)?>' => ['template' => 'campaigns/edit'],
    'campaigns/edit/<slug:(?:[^\/]*)?>/<page:(?:[^\/]*)?>' => ['template' => 'campaigns/_page'],
];

With the content of campaigns/_page being:

{% include ['campaigns/edit/' ~ page] %}

We can't have it route to the correct template based on the route params without the intermediary Twig template?

[brandonkelly]

Ohhh sorry I wasn’t really following the question, and missed the <page> bit in the example. Not currently possible. Will unmark this as the answer and relabel this as an idea.

[engram-design]

All good! I know it's pretty niche, but something we've run across on a few projects that would help clean things up (and according to the Yii docs, help the URL Manager performance). But my approach above is probably the way to go

[mmikkel]

I'd really love to see this implemented!