You can also use Inflector::slug() http://api.cakephp.org/class_inflector.html#c88c8b31dc4769cb9b48c25bcd9fcb41
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 8:51 PM, brian <[email protected]> wrote: > > Personally, I'd create a slug for the user with their first & last > names. There's a SluggableBehavior you can use for that (though, I > believe that functionality may be built-in now somewhere). Whatever > you use, you'll want to ensure that punctuation characters are dropped > and that accented characters are properly mapped to ascii equivalents. > > As for having these pages available from root, just create a route like: > > Router::connect( > '/:slug', > array('controller' => 'your_controller', 'action' => 'your_action'), > array('slug' => '/[_-a-z0-9]/', 'pass' => 'slug') > ); > > This assumes that your slugs consist of lowercase characters, digits, > hyphen, or underscore only. The slug will be passed to your action: > > function my_action($slug = null) {} > > Of course, you'll need to specify every other possible route before > this one and ensure that nobody can create a slug identical to any of > your controller routes. > > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 10:18 PM, TC <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi there, >> >> I have a project that needs me to do this: >> >> Through an admin area users can create their own "Slug" so they can >> reach their own pages, for example one create his name "cake", then >> his page can be reached as: http://www.example.com/cake, another one >> create name "php" so his page can be reached as: http://www.example.com/php. >> >> Obviously their pages are almost the same but just some specific >> texts, so I think it only need one controller, but how can I create >> specific names in the URL for them? >> >> Please help, thank you in advance! >> >> >> > >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CakePHP" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
