On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 12:38 PM, spheroid <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks, but how would it know what to render? Example, if the page
> needs to show blog article #23, effectively I need to pass that
> variable somehow. If the url were mysite.com/blogs/view/23 the
> controller would handle that.
What you're trying to do is to use slugs for your URLs. You'll have to
create a column in the table to hold your slug. Usually, that's a
string taken from a title, name, etc. Then, use the slug to fetch the
record, eg. 'conditions' => array('slug' => $slug)
The simplest way to do this is to use SluggableBehavior [1] You tell
it which field/column to use to create the slug. When you save a new
record, it'll add the slug.
Say you have a PostsController, and you want your posts URLs to look like:
http://www.yoursite.com/news/this-is-a-slug
Route:
Router::connect(
'/news/:slug',
array('controller' => 'posts', 'action' => 'slug'),
array('slug' => '[-a-z]+', 'pass' => array('slug'))
);
You might need to change the regexp to [-_a-z] if you want to include
underscores. Or [-a-z0-9] if numbers may be involved.
function view($slug = null)
{
...
Note that you must also include routes for your add/edit/admin_*
actions, too, as the regexp will otherwise match those. And they must
come before the slug route.
In your case, you want the slug to be the entire URL. eg:
Router::connect(
'/:slug',
array('controller' => 'posts', 'action' => 'slug'),
array('slug' => '[-a-z]+', 'pass' => array('slug'))
);
The problem with this is that you'll have to create routes for EVERY
controller action in your app.
Be sure to fetch the slug field along with your other data so you can
then create links with:
$html->link(
$data['Post']['title'],
array(
'controller' => 'posts',
'action' => 'view'
'slug' => $data['Post']['slug']
)
);
[1] http://cake-syrup.sourceforge.net/ingredients/sluggable-behavior/
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