Aliases module for Kohana Framework

This module allows you to make usefull and beautifull URLs for your service.

You don't need more /user/<id> or /article/<id> cursors in routes. Now you can use simply /donald and /victory or /pokemon-go like addresses for different resources.

User Guide

Article describing this HMVC feature placed on our website https://ifmo.su/alias-system

To include module, just place it to the /modules directory and push to the Kohana::modules() array in bootstrap.php

Kohana::modules(array(
        'aliases' => MODPATH . 'aliases', // Aliases for URLs
        ...
));

All you need after is to incule alias creation and updating at your logic:

Creating

$alias         = Model_Alias::generateUri( $uri );
$resource_type = Model_Uri::ARTICLE; // your own resource's type such as user, article, category and other
$resource_id   = 12345;

$article->uri = Model_Alias::addAlias($alias, $resource_type , $resource_id);

Updating

$resource_id   = $article->id;
$old_uri       = $article->uri;
$new_uri       = Model_Alias::generateUri( $uri );
$resource_type = Model_Uri::ARTICLE;


$article->uri = Model_Alias::updateAlias($old_uri, $new_uri, Model_Uri::ARTICLE, $resource_id);

What about cache

Note that module's version does not includes a cache scheme. You may need memcache or another driver to add this feature.

Repository

https://github.com/codex-team/kohana-aliases/

About CodeX

We are small team of Web-developing fans consisting of IFMO students and graduates located in St. Petersburg, Russia. Fell free to give us a feedback on team@ifmo.su