[TYPO3-mvc] RealURL with extBase

[Nathan Lenz]

Has anyone done this yet?  I just read through the "Routing" chapter in
the FLOW3 manual, seems very powerful.

I wonder if it will be possible to make pretty url's with extBase in v4?

I know this might end up involving questions about RealURL, but thought
it might be more appropriate to post it here for now.

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It would be super easy to do something like this with RealURL:

/pageintypo3wheremypluginis/controller/blog/action/show/blogname/my-blog-name/

controller would map to tx_myext_pi1[controller] with a valueMap or
userfunction that makes the controller name all lowercase. I suppose you
could make it work either way by doing:

'blog' => 'Blog',
'post' => 'Post',
'Blog' => 'Blog,
'Post' => 'Post'

action would map to tx_myext_pi1[action] with no special changes because
actions are lower case by default.

Then blogname would map to tx_myext_pi1[Blog] with a table lookup.

I'm not really satisfied with this solution because a url for my domain
would end up being:

/recipes/controller/recipe/action/show/recipe/meatballs-with-gravy/

That's ugly and too long! :)  /recipe/ shows up more than once and
/controller/action/ shouldn't be necessary.

In a perfect world, I'd have pretty urls like this:

/recipes/show/meatballs-with-gravy/
/recipes/dishes/main-course/
/recipes/dishes/

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It is easy to extract controller and action from the URL using
fixedPostVars where you make the first parameter the controller and the
second parameter the action for a fixed page id.

However, the third parameter is where it gets complicated.  As far as I
know it's not possible to vary a look-up-table based on the second rule
back in the rule chain.  So that's where I'm currently stuck.

/somepage/controller/action/uniquestring/string-mapped-to-id-in-table
/somepage/blog/show/blogname/some-blog/

It's still a little ugly in my domain:

/recipes/recipe/show/recipe-name/meatballs-with-gravy

Anyone else given this much thought?  What are you doing in your extensions?


--Nathan