Multiple pattern in single symfony routing

Are you using Symfony2? If you are and can use annotations for your routing instead of yml or xml then it's possible to have multiple routes defined along these lines:

/*** @Route("/");* @Route("/home");*/

Then you don't need to duplicate the action method.

The easiest way is to duplicate the block and make 2 routes.

blog:    pattern:   /    defaults:  { _controller: AcmeBlogBundle:Blog:index, page: 1 }blog_index:    pattern:   /index    defaults:  { _controller: AcmeBlogBundle:Blog:index, page: 1 }

So you have the possibility to use both of them in your path if you need it.

Here you can see another post how to use regex in your routing. Perhaps you can write a simple regex, which checks whether index is set.

Edit:

If you work with annotations, which I prefer, then you can write more than one route over your Controller's Action method. Something like this:

/*** @Route("/");* @Route("/home");*/

When using YAML routes you can also use the node anchors expression syntax to reference an existing route definition.

& specifies the first occurrence of an anchor, * specifies the anchor to reference, << tells the Symfony yaml parser to merge the specified node.

blog: &blog  path: /  defaults:  { _controller: AcmeBlogBundle:Blog:index, page: 1 }blog_index:  <<: *blog  path: /indexblog_page:  <<: *blog  path: /blog

Alternatively you can use anchors on a route attribute value.

blog:  path: /  defaults: &blog_defaults    _controller: AcmeBlogBundle:Blog:index    page: 1blog_index:  path: /index  defaults: *blog_defaultsblog_page:  path: /blog  defaults: *blog_defaults

However to prevent poor SEO due to duplicate content, it is recommended to use a redirect instead.

blog:  path: /  defaults: { _controller: AcmeBlogBundle:Blog:index, page: 1 }blog_index:  path: /index  defaults: &blog_redirect    _controller: FrameworkBundle:Redirect:redirect    route: blog    permanent: trueblog_page:  path: /blog  defaults: *blog_redirect