On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Miles J <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Im trying, for example, to get this:
>
> /games/view/123/Starcraft
>
> To route to:
>
> /games/view/Starcraft
>
> But still pass the id to the action. Heres my route, but its not
> working:
>
> Router::connect('/games/view/:title', array('controller' => 'games',
> 'action' => 'view'), array('pass' => array('id', 'title'), 'id' =>
> '[0-9]+', 'title' => '[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+'));
But there's no ID in that route to pass to the controller; there's
only the title.
You might want to consider using a slug. Basically, you'd create a
slug--all lowercase and spaces as hyphen or underscore--from the title
for each game.Your route would be almost the same:
Router::connect(
'/games/view/:slug',
array('controller' => 'games', 'action' => 'viewBySlug'),
array(
'pass' => array('slug'),
'slug' => '[a-z0-9_-]+'
)
);
Then, you can simply do $this->Game->findBySlug($slug) and you'll have your ID.
I recommend you keep your slugs all lowercase so I've changed the
regexp to reflect that. That's entirely up to you, though.
Give the slug column a UNIQUE index, also.
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