You can also try routing in zend.. http://codeutopia.net/blog/2007/11/16/routing-and-complex-urls-in-zend-framework/ Midhun Girish On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 11:16 AM, NetEmp <net.served@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Dan > > One method for this is to use URL Rewriting (which can be implemented on > Apache using htaccess). > > Through URL Rewriting you can first make the following URL: > > http://www.website.com/article-clean-url > > <http://www.website.com/article-clean-url>to internally behave as the > following: > > http://www.website.com/index/user/ <http://www.website.com/index/user/1>1 > > <http://www.website.com/index/user/1>and then you can use the same > getParam > method to grab the value and carry out further processing. > > Hope this helps. > > Cheers > > NetEmp > > On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Dan Joseph <dmjoseph@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi Everyone, > > > > Zend Framework getParam question.... > > > > I'm trying to get a value from the url... > > > > I know how to grab: > > > > http;//www.website.com/index/user/1 > > > > that's the index controller, $this->_getParam('user'); (value = 1).. > > > > What I'd like to be able to grab is just off one thing from the url... > > example.. I want to give an article a unique/clean url... so, when I go > > to: > > > > http://www.website.com/article-clean-url > > > > I can somehow grab that 'article-clean-url' as a value and use it for a > > lookup in the database. > > > > I've tried everything and search all over the place. I can't find the > > answer. Can someone tell me how this is done? Thanks... > > > > -- > > -Dan Joseph > > >