ZF2 Routing with Special Characters

Question

I have a little question regarding the routing with Zend Framework 2. URLs with "normal" letters are working fine and I get to my sides, but for example an URL with characters like á or whitespaces /test/some characters /test/héllo won't work and I get a 404-Error. When I remove the whitespaces in the url or replace the special character é with normal "e" I will get my url too.

So I think the problem is in my module.config.php with the constraints. How can I define these special characters to reach the URLs? Hope you can help me!

module.config.php URL Segment

'chemistry' => array(
    'type' => 'Segment',
    'options' => array(
        'route' => '[/:id[/:name]]/chemistry/page[/:page]',
        'constraints' => array(
            'id'    => '[0-9]*',
            'name'  => '[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z-]*',
            'page'  => '[0-9]*'
        ),
        'defaults' => array(
            'action'=> 'chemistry',
            'id'    => '1',
            'name'  => 'Messi',
            'page'  => '1'
        ),
    ),
),

Could be a duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16097053/route-mit-special-characters-are-not-parsed-correctly-in-zend-framework-2 — Saeven, May 29 '16 at 02:10

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 29 '16 at 08:20

You are using a regex in your route constraints. If you want to match route segments like that you should change your regex constraint accordingly. So if you want to match a route segment with a space character you have to add it to your regex:

To match spaces anywhere in the segment:

'[a-zA-Z ]+'
To match words with spaces in between.

'[a-zA-Z]+( [a-zA-Z]+)*'

You can read more on Regex in routing here in the paragraph Zend\Mvc\Router\Http\Regex in chapter Routing

The first one was on my mind too, but didn't work for me. Also your second suggestion failed :/ — Hans Martin, May 30 '16 at 11:52

ZF2 Routing with Special Characters

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