Common route for different modules

Questions Components & MVC
1

Hello. I have 2 modules: user and application. They have same IndexController.
I wrote common route in application.config

router' => [
        'routes' => [
            'common' => [
                'type'    => Segment::class,
                'options' => [
                    'route' => '[/:module/:controller/:action[/:id]]',
                    'constraints' => [
                        'module'     => '[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_-]*',
                        'controller' => '[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_-]*',
                        'action'     => '[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_-]*',
                        'id'         => '[0-9]+',
                    ],
                    'defaults' => [
                        'action'     => 'index',
                    ],
                ],
            ],
        ],
    ],

Router match this route. But nowadays
When uri is domain.com/application/index/index
then It was calling IndexController in User module. But I expect for IndexController in Application module

How to reach that IndexController will be call in different modules with this route config?

2

I setted alias for 2 IndexControllers as index. As i understand just last alias used.

3

The question is different: Where did you get the description that there is a parameter “module”?

4

Thanks for answer! I understand why just have called IndexController in user module - because its alias was last determined. But how possible call needed controller in needed module with common route like that

‘route’ => ‘[/:module/:controller/:action[/:id]]’,

parameter “module” does not use for some logic. Its a example how i would like
So:
application/index/index - would be call IndexController in Application module
user/index/index - would be call IndexController in User module

Or i should write specific route for each controller?

5

laminas-mvc does not use a parameter module, only controller and action. So I wanted to know where you got this information with the parameter module.

The parameter controller points to a class name or to a registered alias of a class name, this contains the namespace and so also the module name. Example: Album\Controller\IndexController::class – Album is here the module.

6

My target was generate common route like: module / controller / action
I have not find right solution for that in docs or something yet. That’s why I wrote a little function in Module.php in each module that implements that.

    #here it is
    public function loadCommonRoutes(array $config): array
    {
        $routes = $config['router']['routes'];
        $templateRoute = strtolower(__NAMESPACE__).'-common-';

        $controllersFiles = array_diff(scandir(__DIR__ . '/../src/Controller'), array('.', '..'));

        foreach ($controllersFiles as $ControllerFileName) {
            $controllerName = strtolower(explode('Controller', $ControllerFileName)[0]);
            $routeName = $templateRoute.$controllerName;
            $routes[$routeName] = [
                    'type'    => Segment::class,
                    'options' => [
                        'route' => '/'.strtolower(__NAMESPACE__).'/'.$controllerName.'[/:action[/:id]][/]',
                        'constraints' => [
                            'controller' => '[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_-]*',
                            'action'     => '[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_-]*',
                            'id'         => '[0-9]+',
                        ],
                        'defaults' => [
                            'action'     => 'index',
                            'controller' => __NAMESPACE__.'\\Controller\\'.ucfirst($controllerName).'Controller',
                        ],
                    ],
            ];
        }

        $config['router']['routes'] = $routes;
        return $config;
    }
7

This function does not exist, so you will not find anything about it.
As I have already described above, a different approach is used in laminas-mvc.

Personally, I don’t want to see anything about modules or controllers in the URL. If the controller changes or is dropped because a request handler or something else is now used, then the URL also changes.

But good if you have found a solution for yourself and share it here. :+1:t3: