How to make a parameter optional in Zend Framework Router

Question

I would like to know the configuration of the .ini file to create a route in which the page number parameter is optional so that

http://news.mysite.com/national
http://news.mysite.com/national/1

point to the same page.

I have the code as follows

resources.router.routes.news_list.type = "Zend_Controller_Router_Route_Regex"
resources.router.routes.news_list.route = "([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+)/([0-9\-]+)"
resources.router.routes.news_list.defaults.module = "news"
resources.router.routes.news_list.defaults.controller = "index"
resources.router.routes.news_list.defaults.action = "category"
resources.router.routes.news_list.defaults.page = 1
resources.router.routes.news_list.map.1 = "categ"
resources.router.routes.news_list.map.2 = "page"
resources.router.routes.news_list.reverse = "%s/%s"

can some1 help me with a solution to change this code to make it work for both urls

Answer 1

You can do this without a regex path using:

routes.news_list.route = ":action/:page"
routes.news_list.defaults.module = "news"
routes.news_list.defaults.controller = "index"
routes.news_list.defaults.action = "category"
routes.news_list.defaults.page = 1

I assume that you want each request sent to the news module and the index controller. Only the action and page are variables in the URL.

Answer 2

resources.router.routes.news_list.type = "Zend_Controller_Router_Route_Regex"
resources.router.routes.news_list.route = "([a-zA-Z0-9-]+)/?([0-9]+)?"
resources.router.routes.news_list.defaults.module = "news"
resources.router.routes.news_list.defaults.controller = "index"
resources.router.routes.news_list.defaults.action = "category"
resources.router.routes.news_list.defaults.page = 1
resources.router.routes.news_list.map.1 = "categ"
resources.router.routes.news_list.map.2 = "page"
resources.router.routes.news_list.reverse = "%s/%d"

- , Regex.