On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 11:55 AM, ianmcn <[email protected]> wrote:
> I develop an internal booking/asset management system for my work, it
> has data separated by department, but I need a way to have the
> department specified in the URL as the first segment. For example:
>
> /:departmentname/bookings/add
>
> After that, the default cakephp conventions would work fine. At the
> moment I achieve this by having the application in many different
> folders, one for each department - but I know that is a seriously bad
> way to do it - it was just a quick way to achieve something to a
> deadline, but the number of departments is getting out of hand, so I
> want to put this right. Can anyone give me some hints as to what
> routing rules I'd need to do this?
You're also asking for more problems by having a slug as the first
part of the URL. To do that, you'd have to create routes for every
single action (including admin_*) and include them before this one.
Either that, or your regexp to match on department would have to
include the literal names of all departments, eg:
array('department' => '[foo|bar|this|that|another|and_another]'
That way, the regexp wouldn't match on your other controllers. But you
can probably see that this would be yet another maintenance nightmare.
Better to do this through a single controller. Create a Booking model
and a Department model. That way, it shouldn't matter how many new
departments are added.
BookingsController:
Router::connect(
'/bookings/:dept',
array('controller' => 'bookings', 'action' => 'view'),
array('dept' => '[a-z]+', 'pass' => array('dept')
);
Router::connect(
'/bookings/:dep/addt',
array('controller' => 'bookings', 'action' => 'add'),
array('dept' => '[a-z]+', 'pass' => array('dept')
);
public function view($dept = null) {
public function add($dept = null) {
Note that you wouldn't strictly need to add Department to
BookingsController's $uses array. As long as you properly associate it
with Booking model, you can do $this->Booking->Department->find(...)
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