Updated: Best practices for managing static content in Zend Framework?

Question

I have some questions concerning the Zend Framework. I am attempting to route all static pages through the default controller using the now default displayAction()

Answer 1

I think your on the right track however here are some other ideas.

Break up your routing per sections in your INI: ie a blog router, a static page router a forum router etc.. (I think you are already doing this)

Use the various router classes to handle routing per section rather than sending it to a controller.

Static: http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.controller.router.html#zend.controller.router.routes.static

All: http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.controller.router.html

Some links that may help:

• codeutopia.net/blog/2007/11/16/routing-and-complex-urls-in-zend-framework/
• www.vayanis.com/2009/03/20/intro-to-zend-framework-routing/

Answer 2

Your approach seems reasonable to me. However, perhaps you should take advantage of the __call method instead, which would allow you to more easily route your actions...

Setup your route like this:

resources.router.routes.static-pages.route = /:action
resources.router.routes.static-pages.defaults.module = default
resources.router.routes.static-pages.defaults.controller = index

And your controller like so:

public function someAction() {
    //going to URL /some will now go into this method
}

public function __call($name, $args) {
    //all URLs which don't have a matching action method will go to this one
}