Zend Router

I have been working on a way to have Zend Framework route dynamic page names to my CMS controller, I have done quite a bit of Google searching and cant seem to find anything that does the exact thing I want.

I think I have a solution, its not exactly what I started out for but it appears to work without affecting Zend's default routes.

my routes.ini file is as follows.

routes.cms.type = "Zend_Controller_Router_Route_Regex"
routes.cms.route = "^(.*).html"
routes.cms.defaults.module = "default"
routes.cms.defaults.controller = "index"
routes.cms.defaults.action = "index"
routes.cms.map.1 = "slug"

PHP:

This allows me to enter the URL http://localhost/someCMSpage.html .

Which routes to my CMS controller.

In the CMS controller I can do

$slug = $this->_request->getParam('slug');

PHP:

$slug would = "someCMSpage", I can then search the page table for WHERE slug = $slug.

I figured I could also enter something like URL http://localhost/parentPage/someCMSsiblingpage.html and then just trim off anything before the last / (forward slash).

Though this works, as always with Zend Framework I am skeptical theres probably other ways of doing this.

Does anyone have any comments on my method or can suggest any improvements / different ways of doing this I would be interested.

Cheers

Richard