Zend 2: Add prefix to route's action - zend-framework2

Question

I have application with following URLs
www.myapp.com/admin/profile [index action]
www.myapp.com/admin/profile/add [add action]
www.myapp.com/admin/profile/edit [edit action]
www.myapp.com/admin/profile/del [delete action]
These URLs are for users with admin permissions.
Users who do NOT have admin permissions have following URLs
www.myapp.com/user/profile
www.myapp.com/user/profile/add
www.myapp.com/user/profile/edit
www.myapp.com/user/profile/del
Routes in Zend 2
// admin routes
'admin' => array(
'type' => 'Literal',
'options' => array(
'route' => '/admin',
'defaults' => array(
'__NAMESPACE__' => __NAMESPACE__.'\Controller',
),
),
'may_terminate' => true,
'child_routes' => array(
// Profile
'profile' => array(
'type' => 'Literal',
'options' => array(
'route' => '/profile',
'defaults' => array(
'__NAMESPACE__' => __NAMESPACE__ . '\Controller',
'controller' => 'Profile',
'action' => 'index'
)
),
'may_terminate' => true,
'child_routes' => array(
'default' => array(
'type' => 'Segment',
'options' => array(
'route' => '[/:action[/:id]]',
'constraints' => array(
'action' => '[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_-]*',
'id' => '\d+'
),
'defaults' => array(
'__NAMESPACE__' => __NAMESPACE__ . '\Controller',
'controller' => 'Profile'
)
)
),
)
),
),
),
// user routes
'admin' => array(
'type' => 'Literal',
'options' => array(
'route' => '/user',
'defaults' => array(
'__NAMESPACE__' => __NAMESPACE__.'\Controller',
),
),
'may_terminate' => true,
'child_routes' => array(
// Profile
'profile' => array(
'type' => 'Literal',
'options' => array(
'route' => '/profile',
'defaults' => array(
'__NAMESPACE__' => __NAMESPACE__ . '\Controller',
'controller' => 'Profile',
'action' => 'clientIndex'
)
),
'may_terminate' => true,
'child_routes' => array(
'default' => array(
'type' => 'Segment',
'options' => array(
'route' => '[/:action[/:id]]',
'constraints' => array(
'action' => 'client[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_-]*', <----- look here
'id' => '\d+'
),
'defaults' => array(
'__NAMESPACE__' => __NAMESPACE__ . '\Controller',
'controller' => 'Profile'
)
)
),
)
),
),
),
What I want to have is that if user access url: www.myapp.com/admin/profile/add
Application run controller Profile and action addAction
If user access url: www.myapp.com/user/profile/add
Application run controller Profile and action userAddAction
So I want to add prefix 'user' to every action when user routes are used.
I have tried:
'options' => array(
...
'defaults' => array(
'__NAMESPACE__' => __NAMESPACE__ . '\Controller',
'controller' => 'Profile',
'action' => 'user[:action]' <--- look here
)
)
But of course it doesn't work.
I know I could define static routes, but I would like to do it with Segment routes type

Answer 1

There is no need to change the route. Route definitions are there to be matched by the URL, so the application is able to execute the correct controller action.
So by defining 'action' => 'client[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9_-]*' you are saying that the [:action] part of the route needs to match on this pattern, which would only happen if you browsed to www.myapp.com/admin/profile/clientadd etc.
To resolve your problem you can split your child routes so you have a route per action.
This example shows for the user route, however you can copy this and add them as children of the /admin/profile route also (changing the action value point addAction rather than clientAddAction etc).
// user routes
'user' => [
// same as before
'child_routes' => [
'profile' => [
// same as before
'child_routes' => [
'add' => [
'type' => 'literal',
'options' => [
'route' => '/add'
'defaults' => [
// no need for controller value as is
// inherited from the 'profile' parent route
'action' => 'clientAddAction'
],
],
],
'edit' => [
'type' => 'segment',
'options' => [
'route' => '/edit/:id',
'defaults' => [
'action' => 'clientEditAction',
]
],
],
'del' => [
'type' => 'segment',
'options' => [
'route' => '/del/:id',
'defaults' => [
'action' => 'clientDeleteAction',
]
],
],
],
],
],
];
The only change you would need to make is when you render a URL within the view.
$this->url('/users/profile/default, ['action'=>'add']);
$this->url('/users/profile/default, ['action'=>'edit', 'id' => 123]);
Would become.
$this->url('/users/profile/add');
$this->url('/users/profile/edit, ['id' => 123]);