CakePHP hiding action name in URL, while passing arguments

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I have such a structure:

example.com / MyController / index / MyGoodPage / maximum/
example.com / MyController / index / MyBestPage / optimum/
example.com / MyController / index / MyFancyPage / lowprice/

But I don't want my visitors to see "index" word, because it doesn't give any more information to him/her. I need my URLs like this:

example.com / MyController / MyGoodPage / maximum/
example.com / MyController / MyBestPage / optimum/
example.com / MyController / MyFancyPage / lowprice/

But to do thisin default Cake-way, I need to create seperate hundereds of actions to handle my situation. I don't want to create them all actions, I need to create one action and then show relevant content regarding to request->params['pass'].

Is it possible?

nIcO · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-15 13:53:18Z

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This is a job for Routing: http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/development/routing.html and this is actually what is done by default for the core PagesController's display method:

Router::connect('/pages/*', array('controller' => 'pages', 'action' => 'display'));

You could do the same for your controller

Router::connect('/controller_name/*', array('controller' => 'controller_name', 'action' => 'index'));

answered Dec 15, 2012 at 13:53

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dogmatic69 · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-16 02:00:23Z

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You have already selected an answer, but here is a better one.

Router::connect('/controller_name/*', array(...)); as posted above will match anything, so you can no longer access /controller_name/delete or any other method.

You should opt for a less greedy route such as Router::connect('/contorller_name/:something', array(...)); and specify a regex like [maximum|optimum|lowprice] for example.

Doing this you can also specify the something to be passed to the controller and it will be available as $this->request->something

answered Dec 16, 2012 at 2:00

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trante Over a year ago

Thank you. Adding all of the action arguments into regex wouldn't take too much computation time. What about writing something like this? "Use display action, if action name is not action1 or action2"

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