What is the best way to handle routing for CMS-like project in Symfony2

Question

I'm trying to build an Symfony2 application, that have CMS features. I've got three entities (among others) which are : Page, Category, Post (classic ones, huh ?)

I would like to have the following routing :

Page : /{slug} (slug is a Page entity field)

Category : /{slug} (slug is a Category entity field)

Post : /{slug} (slug is a Post entity field)

However, this will never work, because Symfony2 router, will match the first route that corresponds to the /{slug} pattern.

I would like to know, what is the best pratice to handle these cases. I'm aware of Symfony CMF, but I do not want use this kind of massive tool (as it contains too many bundles which I'm not willing to use).

Thanks in advance for your answers

Answer 1

You will have to use a custom route loader to do this, check the cookbook article:

http://symfony.com/doc/current/cookbook/routing/custom_route_loader.html

The CMF project uses its own dynamic router which you could use without the full CMF stack also:

http://symfony.com/doc/current/cmf/bundles/routing/dynamic.html