I have been using ColdBox for a few months now and I absolutely love it. Althought I havent used all the features it has to offer, I like the URL rewriting feature a lot.
In one of my projects, my routes.cfm had quite a few routes added that looked like this.
[xml]
addRoute(pattern="contactus", handler ="ehPages", action="dspStatic")
[/xml]
Now, basically, what this does is sends the request to dspStatic action which reads the contents of the page from database and passes on to the view. I wanted to set a variable for which pagename to get from the database in the route file itself so I could share the same action for different pages. Thats when I looked at “matchVariables” attribute. I used it as documented and it wasnt working.
Apparently, it was introduced in 2.6.3 and I was using 2.6.2 . Thanks to Luis for clarifying this to me. But there is also an undocumented way of doing this with earlier versions.
[xml]
addRoute(pattern="contactus", handler ="ehPages", action="dspStatic", pagename="contactus")
[/xml]
So, you can pass your extra variables in the route file and they would be available in the request scope. Thats pretty cool I think!
I thought this little tip might save someone some troubleshooting/debugging time.
