Loading profile only with parameter without the need to key in Kohana 3.x - kohana-3

Question

I'm new to Kohana 3.x. Would you like a website with Kohana with User profile style twitter. Example: https://twitter.com/maronems to load the profile is passed only paramentro maronems without the need to pass the key = parameter. Please can someone help me?

Answer 1

By "key = parameter" I assume you mean something like http://twitter.com?user=maronems right? This is ugly, we can do better.
Let's look at making your URLs look like http://twitter.com/maronems instead.
You'll want to look at Kohana's routing system.
Take a look at this route:
Route::set('username route', '<username>')
->defaults(array(
'controller' => 'Profile',
'action' => 'index',
));
Firstly, it's called username route, this is an aribitrary name,
but a good one because it's intent is clear.
Next look at the regex pattern <username>. This route is going to capture the username and store it in a variable called username.
Now notice that the route doesn't have to specify the controller and action. The routing system will get those from the default values. In this example you'll need a controller called Controller_Profile with an action called action_index.
So let's look at the controller now:
<?php
class Controller_Profile extends Controller {
function action_index()
{
echo 'Hello ' . $this->request->param('username');
}
}
Of course you shouldn't user echo like this in classes, but to illustrate the point, if you visit example.com/maronems you should see Hello maronems echoed out.