Actually this is really a common task to do. You’ve to rewrite the url to be more “user friendly”. To be more clear I’ll give you an example. Let’s imagine you have a index controller and an index action. Thus if you have to load an Id from the database at least with the build in Zend Framework capabilities, you’ve to use this link:

www.example.com/index/index/id/33949

This is not good. It’s really bad. It will be great if you can use something like this:

www.example.com/33949

The solution in Zend Framework is called Zend_Controller_Router_Route. In a short snippet this will look like so:

$frontController->addRoute("my-route", new Zend_Controller_Router_Route("/:id",
    array("controller" => "index", "action" => "index", 'id' => 1),
    array('id' => '\d+')));

Here as you can see id is set to be 1. But don’t worry that’s not a hard code. The real work is done by the last parameter where the id is matched against a number value. Thus www.example.com/3 will be OK, but www.example.com/3a won’t.

Important Note

Don’t forget to add this rewrite rule in the .htaccess file.