ZF2 modify URL formatting

Question

I have a ZF2 app with a few modules and their routes. Everything works great. But I'd like to customize the way URL are created, without having to rewrite all my views.

let consider the following route:

'routes' => array(
    'moduleName' => array(
        'type'    => 'segment',
        'options' => array(
            'route'    => '/moduleName/[:title]-[:id][/:action]
            'constraints' => array(
                'action'    => '[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_-]*',
                'id'        => '[0-9]+',
            ),
            'defaults' => array(
                'controller' => 'moduleName\Controller\moduleName',
                'action'     => 'index',
            ),
        ),
    ),

I've put no constraints on 'title' because it can be a string containing european special char and/or spaces. the url http://domain/moduleName/J'ustAn éxample-28/create works fine but I'd like it to be proper formatted: http://domain/moduleName/j-ustan-example-28/create

is there a way to this nicely in my config file? of Module.php? or even 'higher'?

EDIT I tried to build a new Url Helper (based on this question Extending Zend\View\Helper\Url in Zend Framework 2):

namespace Application\View\Helper;

use Zend\View\Helper\Url as ZendUrl;

class Url extends ZendUrl {

    public function __invoke($name = null, array $params = array(), $options = array(), $reuseMatchedParams = false) {
        foreach($params as $param => $value) {
            $params[$param] = $this->cleanString($value);
        }
        $link = parent::__invoke($name, $params, $options, $reuseMatchedParams);
        return $link;
    }

    public function cleanString($string) {
        $string = str_replace(array('[\', \']'), '', $string);
        $string = preg_replace('/\[.*\]/U', '', $string);
        $string = preg_replace('/&(amp;)?#?[a-z0-9]+;/i', '-', $string);
        $string = htmlentities($string, ENT_COMPAT, 'utf-8');
        $string = preg_replace('/&([a-z])(acute|uml|circ|grave|ring|cedil|slash|tilde|caron|lig|quot|rsquo);/i', '\\1', $string );
        $string = preg_replace(array('/[^a-z0-9]/i', '/[-]+/') , '-', $string);
        return strtolower(trim($string, '-'));
    }
}

But I cannot make it work. I've put this in \Application\Module.php:

public function getViewHelperConfig()
{
    return array(
        'factories' => array(
            'Application\View\Helper\Url'            => function ($sm) {
                $serviceLocator = $sm->getServiceLocator();
                $view_helper =  new \Application\View\Helper\Url();
                $router = \Zend\Console\Console::isConsole() ? 'HttpRouter' : 'Router';
                $view_helper->setRouter($serviceLocator->get($router));

                $match = $serviceLocator->get('application')
                    ->getMvcEvent()
                    ->getRouteMatch();

                if ($match instanceof RouteMatch) {
                    $view_helper->setRouteMatch($match);
                }

                return $view_helper;
            }
        ),
    );
}

But it does not work and does not display any errors.

DO you want to accept the url with special characters and just modify the parameter to be filtered, or redirect the special character url to the transformed url? — GeeH, Oct 19 '13 at 09:40
I want to filter the params.I tried to build a new URL Helper but cannot manage to make it work ... — Bibear, Oct 21 '13 at 07:41

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:50

Maybe like this

'title'    => '[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_-]*', // add this line to your route

Otherwise when you create the link

function clean($string) {
   $string = str_replace('', '-', $string); // Replaces all spaces with hyphens.
   return preg_replace('/[^A-Za-z0-9\-]/', '-', $string); // Removes special chars.
}
$title = clean("J'ustAn éxample");

Generate link

echo $this->url('moduleName', array('title'=>$title,'id'=>28,'action'=>'create'))

source: Remove all special characters from a string

ZF2 modify URL formatting

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