On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 2:38 AM, Greg <[email protected]> wrote: > Still a bit stuck here with ReST. I have the index displaying as XML, > and JSON - so its a good start... > > however the list could end up being quite large, so I want to > condition it by fields. > > Conceptually something like: > > logs.xml?source=&class=&method=& etc, allowing the caller to pass > basic query parameters to the index action. > > I don't want to use $_GET though, I'd prefer to use something like > named parameters, but unsure how to make this play nice.
For GET requests, have a look at $this->request->query. > > Do i need to set up custom ReST routing instead of mapResources() to > achieve this? You can use mapResources to make _fancy_ URLs, but if you want to pass parameters to your index view like in the example above, you can just refer to the default configuration. Cheers, Matteo -- http://www.matteolandi.net/ -- Our newest site for the community: CakePHP Video Tutorials http://tv.cakephp.org Check out the new CakePHP Questions site http://ask.cakephp.org and help others with their CakePHP related questions. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php
