avoid having 'index' in url when using a variable in cakephp

Question

When you want to have a link like

http://www.domain.com/users/54/John

In Cakephp you have to rewrite it to:

http://www.domain.com/users/index/54/John

If you don't do this cakephp complains that within the users controller there is no action called 54. Is there no other way around this? Like to tell cakephp that when the second variable in the url is a number (so in this case 54), to refer it to the index function:

public function index($userId = null).

Another example is the url of this question. If it was cakephp, the url would look like:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/index/18547494/avoid-having..

Is it in cakephp possible to do something like this?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18547494/avoid-having..

I hope this makes sense.

You should be using query strings and probably some custom routing. This avoids this issue completely - in a clean and future proof way. — mark
– mark, Commented Aug 31, 2013 at 17:53

Anil kumar · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-31 13:35:10Z

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Router::connect('/users/:id/:name', array(
    'controller' => 'users',
    'action' => 'index'
), array('pass' => array('id', 'name')));

Your controller action code should be like this:

public function index($id = null, $name = null) {
    // your code
}

In your view you can define link as follows to access the url

echo $this->Html->link('view', array(
    'controller'  => 'users',
    'action' => 'index'
    'id' => $yourid,
    'name' => $yourname
))

answered Aug 31, 2013 at 13:35

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Lkopo · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-31 11:12:54Z

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You'll need to use the id key in the routing array when creating links. Something like this:

array(
    'controller'=>'users', 'action'=>'index', 'id' => 54
}

answered Aug 31, 2013 at 11:12

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user2735376 Over a year ago

then it will still put index in the url

Nik Chankov · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-31 13:13:04Z

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You should have have this:

Router::connect(
   '/:controller/:id',
   array('action' => 'view'),
   array('id' => '[0-9]+')
);

Read: Routing in CakePHP

answered Aug 31, 2013 at 13:13

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