Send params in URL in different way?

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I don’t know how to write title for this question. Anyway this is the scenario ..

I have a table like this

Person

id | username | firstname | lastname
 1 |    ab    |     Aaaa  |    Bbbb
 2 |    yz    |     Yyyy  |    Zzzz

I use following URL to show person profile:

example.com/person/profile/index?id=1   // Show person 1 profile
example.com/person/profile/index?id=1   // Show person 2 profile

Here: person is module, profile is controller and index is action used to get and show user profile using param id

Above scenario is working perfectly.

Question:

Now I want to use following URLs to get user profile using usernames

example.com/person/profile/ab   // Show person 1 profile
example.com/person/profile/yz   // Show person 2 profile

Any idea ??

Thanks

Answer 1

By default you don’t need to do anything. Just add /name/THENAME to the last of the url.

Then,

Get the value of the name

$name = $this -> _request -> getParam('name');