Magento custom router

Question

I have a custom module, with an IndexController and an indexAction. This has a route with a fronName set in the config.xml(for example angular-app). On this page I have an angular app, with it's own routing. Everything works fine until I don't refresh the browser. After refresh I get 404.
How can I setup magento's router to handle every request under the angular-app with the IndexController:indexAction.

So what I would like:

• request: http://domain.com/angular-app -> IndexController:indexAction
• request: http://domain.com/angular-app/x/y/z -> IndexController:indexAction where x, y, z are dynamic parameters.

• Zach L: Could you share some code? It would make it a little easier to debug
• Attila Dobi: Sure, - config.xml: config.xml - IndexController: IndexController - index.phtml: index.phtml

Answer 1

I am not expert in angular app but as per as my understand,You want to send all angular requests with prefix angular-app in your url.

So,you need to create new custom router. To understand the custom route,Follow the below link.

• inchoo
• Atwix

For your case, using controller_front_init_routers add custom router at system by $front->addRouter('addangularapp',$this); on function initControllerRouters of class ModuleNameSpace_ModuleName_Controller_Router

<!-- define route -->
<frontend>
 <routers>
 <angularapp> <!-- router identifier -->
 <use>standard</use>
 <args>
 <modules>
 <module>ModuleNameSpace_ModuleName</module>
 <frontName>angularapp</frontName>
 </modules>
 </args>
 </angularapp>
 </routers>
</frontend>
<global>
 <!-- event for add a router -->
 <events>
 <controller_front_init_routers>
 <observers> 
 <add_angularapp_route> <!-- observer identifier -->
 <class>ModuleNameSpace_ModuleName_Controller_Router</class>
 <method>initControllerRouters</method>
 </add_angularapp_route> 
 </observers>
 </controller_front_init_routers>
 </events>
</global>

Then at match() validate and modify http request (Zend_Controller_Request_Http). and if request have contain angular-app then it internally set IndexController as controller as ,indexAction as request action and set your module as request module.

$request->setModuleName('YOURROUTE') 
 ->setControllerName('index')
 ->setActionName('index');

Controller code may like:

<?php
class ModuleNameSpace_ModuleName_Controller_Router extends Mage_Core_Controller_Varien_Router_Abstract{
 /**
 * Initialize Controller Router
 *
 * @param Varien_Event_Observer $observer
 */
 public function initControllerRouters($observer){
 $front=$observer->getEvent()->getFront();
 $front->addRouter('addangularapp',$this);
 }
 /* validate and modify the request
 * Params Zend_Controller_Request_Htt
 */
 public function match(Zend_Controller_Request_Http $request){
 /* If Magento Magento is not install then 
 * redirect to installer url
 */
 If(!Mage::isInstalled()):
 Mage::app()->getFrontController()->getResponse()
 ->setRedirect(Mage::getUrl('install'))
 ->sendResponse();
 exit;
 endif;
 $requestPathInfo=trim($request->getPathInfo(),'/');
 Mage::log('aaa'.$requestPathInfo.'StoreId'.Mage::app()->getStore()->getId(), null, 'logfile.log');
 /* check -review-form not exit
 * then immediate return false
 */ 
 if(strpos($requestPathInfo,'angular-app')==false):
 return false;
 endif;
 /* get productut from url 
 by substr 
 */
 $producturl=str_replace('angular-app','',$requestPathInfo);
 $condition=new Varien_Object(array('product_url'=>$producturl,
 'continue'=>true));
 Mage::dispatchEvent('angular_app_controller_router_match_before', array(
 'router' => $this,
 'condition' => $condition
 ));
 if($condition->getRedirectUrl()){
 Mage::app()->getResponse()
 ->setRedirect($condition->getReDirectUrl())
 ->sendResponse();
 $request->setDispatched(true);
 return true;
 }
 if(!$condition->getContinue()){
 return false;
 }
 $request->setModuleName('YOURROUTE') 
 ->setControllerName('index')
 ->setActionName('index')
 ->setParam('customparam', $requestPathInfo);
 $request->setAlias(
 Mage_Core_Model_Url_Rewrite::REWRITE_REQUEST_PATH_ALIAS,
 $requestPathInfo
 );
 return true;
 }
}

Note: code is not tested.

same concet havec in https://magento.stackexchange.com/a/70619/4564 answer