Sorry for the late comeback...
I didn't want to break all the old links, so I left the parsing
algorithm as it is. I was able to reduce the lines of code thanks to
some more efficient features in 1.2 anyway, so that's alright. :o)
There's one thing I wonder about though. The URLs used in the app can
be either:
/:controller/:action/:id
for things like /events/edit/<id>,
or they're:
/:controller/:random/:params
for things like /events/in/<area>/concerts.
The latter ones are all routed through to $EventsController->index(),
where the URL parsing magique happens.
Right now I'm doing this by specifying these routes:
Router::connect('/events/add', array('controller' => 'events',
'action' => 'add'));
Router::connect('/events/edit/*', array('controller' => 'events',
'action' => 'edit'));
Router::connect('/events/show/*', array('controller' => 'events',
'action' => 'show'));
Router::connect('/events/*', array('controller' => 'events', 'action'
=> 'index'));
Is there a way to consolidate these rules somehow? Basically,
everything that is not an actual action in my EventsController should
be send to the index() method. Will I have to override the error
handling class to do that?
Chrs,
Dav
On 11 Aug 2008, at 22:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi David,
> I am no authority but from what I know of the router in Cake I'd say
> probably not.
>
> You may be able to get part of the way there with named routes: /
> events/in:newyork/near:MickyDs
> Problem is you seem to be limited to one of each. You can not have
> Router parse two named parameters with the same name and get an array.
> Instead a later parameter overwrites the previous. near:thefirst/
> near:thesecond generates only a param for near => "thesecond"
> It would be cool if it worked the other way and maybe you can tweak
> the code to do it for you. But you would still not have exactly the
> urls you want.
>
> What could possibly do it all for you is regexp routing. I just
> remember reading about it a while back but since I suck at regexp I
> took little notice. If that feature can overcome the limitation above
> then you could probably write a routing rule-set for your app.
>
> It is the last thing tested in router.test.php
>
> /Martin
>
>
> On Aug 11, 11:10 am, David Christopher Zentgraf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm in the midst of updating a 1.1 app to Cake 1.2, and am looking
>> into how flexible routes are.
>> The app centers around really custom URLs, like:
>>
>> /events/in/<place>/2008/08/13 or /events/concerts/near/<station>/
>> 2009/04
>>
>> There can be four different parameters in the URL:
>> - areas, distinguished by keyword /in/
>> - stations or POIs, distinguished by keyword /near/
>> - categories, distinguished by not being a number
>> - dates, distinguished by being a number
>>
>> These can occur in any order and quantity. While I'm updating anyway,
>> I'd like to replace the parsing algorithm for the URL by routes if at
>> all possible; but routes don't seem to be flexible enough for the
>> task, as they require parameters in a fixed order?
>>
>> Any input appreciated,
>> Dav
> >
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