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Was curious if anyone knew the best way to implement the following: I have a parameter in my zend framework 1.12 app which effectively controls the 'scope' of things, and is a field in every table in my db to represent the scope of a row. It is a simple integer variable, and can be thought of as 'buildingID', so it controls which 'building' we are working with.

In a plugin, I have: 

Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance()->getRouter()->setGlobalParam('building', DYNAMIC_INT);

which accomplishes what I need. When I build a URL with the URL view-helper I have my parameter, but it is always at the end of the parameter list. I know this is trivial from a programming perspective, but how would I achieve 'prepending' this global param to my url parameters? 

site.com/admin/controller/action/param1/xyz/param2/xyz/building/2

to become

site.com/admin/controller/action/building/2/param1/xyz/param2/xyz ?

Open to any ideas. If you want me to overload the url view helper, can you provide some example code, because I had trouble setting up this class.

Thank you all!

Alicia Garcia-Raboso
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You can use a custom route to accomplish this. Setup the route somewhere in your bootstrap file:

$route = new Zend_Controller_Router_Route(
    ':controller/:action/building/:building/*'
);
$router = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance()->getRouter();
$router->addRoute('building', $route);

And then, assuming that the following has been called at some point prior to using the url view helper...

Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance()->getRouter()->setGlobalParam('building', DYNAMIC_INT);

...you can specify the route as the second argument of the helper:

echo $this->url(array(
    'controller' => 'admin',
    'action' => 'controller',
    'param1' => 'xyz',
    'param2' => 'xyz',
), 'building');

// /admin/controller/building/1/param1/xyz/param2/xyz
Divey
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