Howdy, Mid, Net, thanks for the tips! I actually didn't have the proper .htaccess settings that ZF wanted, and I needed to add a router :) Thank you both! -Dan On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 12:48 AM, Midhun Girish <midhungirish@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > 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 >> > >> > > -- -Dan Joseph