On Jan 14, 2008 4:30 PM, Chris Hartjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> On Jan 14, 2008 4:22 PM, b logica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Here's one:
> >
> > http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/taking-advantage-of-the-pages-controller
> >
> > -- snip --
> > Route placement
> > Just for reference, you should place the /* route LAST in your routes file
> > or it will override all of the other routes. posted Sun, Oct 22nd 2006,
> > 18:44 by Luke Sheridan
> > -- snip --
>
> Hrm, I hadn't seen that before. Thanks for pointing it out. I know
> that some other frameworks do that sort of thing, where URL's filter
> down through a chain of custom routes.
>
>
I didn't think it was chaining, but that the first route to match
would end "searching" through the rest for a candidate.
>
> > Should I be using a "/*" route? Do I need to specify "/about/*" goes to
> > pages? If so, is there some way that I can keep those views nested like
> > this:
> >
> > views
> > pages
> > about
> > something
> > something deeper
> >
> > With the structure like this, if I try a route like "/about/*" I run into
> > problems because Cake no longer sees the view inside the about dir. I have a
> > lot of static pages and I'd really like to be able to keep them organised,
> > rather than dumping everything in the /app/views/pages/ dir.
>
> Hrm...sounds like you will need a lot of custom routes to make it
> happen, but that's because I've never done what you're trying to do
> (with respect to having a huge collection of static pages).
>
>
>
>
Right now, if i put the /* route at the top, I can browse to static
pages with paths like so:
/about/qas/agenda
where the same directory structure exists under the views/pages/ dir.
But if I try to browse to a controller (/newsletter/) I get:
-- snip --
Missing View
Error: The view for PagesController::display() was not found.
Error: Confirm you have created the file:
/var/www/vhosts/cake_elan/app/views/pages/newsletter.ctp
Notice: If you want to customize this error message, create
app/views/errors/missing_view.ctp
-- snip --
If I put the route at the bottom I get the same error, only it's for
an element I have in my newsletter view (get_archive_list.ctp). In
that file, I have the following:
$archive_list = $this->requestAction('Newsletters/get_archive_list');
So I just created a new route:
Router::connect('Newsletters/get_archive_list', array('controller' =>
'newsletters', 'action' => 'get_archive_list'));
And that's working. So, I guess you're right, and I'll need to set a
route for every element, etc. that I use.
...
Ah--I think I have something. For posterity (and, because I may be
shooting myself in the foot):
All of the static pages are under 3 different directories within the
views/pages/ dir. I wanted a way that I can create just 1 route per
directory:
Router::connect('/about/*', array('controller' => 'pages', 'action' =>
'display'));
Router::connect('/archive/*', array('controller' => 'pages', 'action'
=> 'display'));
etc.
If browse to /about/whatever/ the parent "about" directory is ignored
and whatever can't be found. That is, with the "/*" route, the $path
var in pages_controller is:
Array
(
[0] => about
[1] => whatever
)
When I change the route to "/about/*" I get:
Array
(
[0] => whatever
)
So I wanted some way to pass "about" to the pages_controller so that
it tacks that on to the beginning of the path. I knew that I could
pass in params from the route but I didn't realise that whatever I
passed in would be prepended to the list of params (which are the
following path elements).
So o pass in the top-level dir as the 1st param using the route:
Router::connect('/about/*', array('controller' => 'pages', 'action' =>
'display', 'about'));
Array
(
[0] => about
[1] => whatever
)
And this allows me to remove the routes for elements hack (at least,
it seemed like a hack) so that requestAction can do its thing.
Long story short: I think it's OK now.
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