Creating Custom URLs in Your Wheels App with Routes

Today, I released a chapter in the <a href="http://www.cfwheels.com/docs">Documentation</a> called <a href="http://www.cfwheels.com/docs/chapter/using-routes">Using Routes</a>. Routes are a pretty cool feature of Wheels because they let you step outside of the <abbr title="Uniform Resource Locator">URL</abbr> convention that can sometimes feel like shackles. <!--more--> As I outline in the new chapter, you can create a <abbr title="Uniform Resource Locator">URL</abbr> like this: http://www.domain.com /user/johndoe With this line of code in your <kbd>config/routes.cfm</kbd> file: <div>&lt;cfset addRoute(name="userProfile", pattern="user/[username]", controller="user", action="profile")&gt;</div> <a href="http://www.cfwheels.com/docs/chapter/using-routes">Read on</a> to find out how it all works.