Custom URL Within Custom Module

Question

There seem to be a few similar questions out there but I am struggling to find one that relates to what I need.

I have a custom module that has a View controller. A sample URL would be:

/our-stores/index/view/id/2

I would like to change this to something similar to:

/our-stores/this-is-a-store
or /this-is-a-store.html
or /our-stores/view/this-is-a-store

I'm sure you get the idea.

I have tried adding a url redirect as follows:

$store_url = str_replace(' ', '-', $store_model->getStoreTitle());
Mage::getModel('core/url_rewrite')
                    ->setIsSystem(0)
                    ->setOptions('RP')
                    ->setIdPath($store_url)
                    ->setTargetPath('our-stores/view/index/id/' . $store_model->getId())
                    ->setRequestPath($store_url)
                    ->save();

This seems to partially work; if I go to /this-is-a-store it goes to the correct page by changes the URL in the address bar back to /our-stores/index/view/id/2

Can anyone please help me with a nice, clean way of achieving what I need?

If you need anything off me, please ask and I will provide.

Answer 1

So I figured it out myself and thought I'd share for anyone else who stumbled on this issue.

I simply changed the code in the question to:

$rewrite
    ->setIsSystem(0)
    ->setIdPath('store_' . $store_model->getId())
    ->setTargetPath('our-stores/view/index/id/' . $store_model->getId())
    ->setRequestPath($store_url)
    ->save();

The change that made the difference was not setting options to 'RF'.

Answer 2

you can rewrite the url in magento admin panel itself.

Type - Custom 
Request path – /our-stores/index/view/id/2 
Targeted path - /our-stores/this-is-a-store

you can refer this link also rewite