I have a function in my application which the users can upload files to the webserver. Then these uploaded files will appear in another page wherein another type of users can click on the link. Once the link is clicked, a new tab will open and the file will be shown.
But I can't seem to do it. Using the 'target' => '_blank' is not working, or I may have put it on the wrong part of the code.
In my case, when you click on the link, the file will load on the same tab.
Here's my code:
<?php
echo $this->Html->link($staff_uploads['StaffUpload']['title'], array(
'controller' => 'websites',
'action' => 'view',
'target' => '_blank',
$staff_uploads['StaffUpload']['iduploads']
)
);
?>
Thank you in advance!
The correct code is:
<?php
echo $this->Html->link($staff_uploads['StaffUpload']['title'], array(
'controller' => 'websites',
'action' => 'view',
$staff_uploads['StaffUpload']['iduploads']
), array('target' => '_blank')
);
?>
And do read the documentation as burzum has suggested.
Read the documentation.
HTML attribute options go into the 3rd argument of the link() method, not the second which is the URL as string or array.
Problems like this can be simply resolved by using the documentation.
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Ok, so I have a web app that uploads a file to the webserver. My input fields in my upload form include: type of upload (dropdown list), title, description, and the file to be uploaded, which is a PDF.
Once the PDF file is uploaded, the download link will appear in another page for the public to see. In addition, the title typed in the input field is the download link.
Now, I want to change my code. Instead of downloading it directly when the link is clicked I want it to open in a new tab, so the users can first look at the PDF file then download it from there.
Here are my codes.
Controller:
public function sendFile(){
$id = $this->request->params['pass'][0];
$staffup = $this->StaffUpload->find('first', array('conditions' => array('iduploads'=>$id)));
$this->response->file($staffup['StaffUpload']['dest'], array('download' => true, 'name' => $staffup['StaffUpload']['title']));
return $this->response;
}
The code above is the download function.
public function resources() {
$this->layout = 'website';
$this->set('staff_uploads', $this->StaffUpload->find('all', array('conditions' => array('type' => 'Resource'))));
}
The code above is the view wherein I show all uploaded files which type is Resources.
View:
<?php
foreach ($staff_uploads as $staff_uploads) {
?>
ul>
<li>
<?php
echo $this->Html->link($staff_uploads['StaffUpload']['title'], array('controller' => 'websites', 'action' => 'sendFile', $staff_uploads['StaffUpload']['iduploads']));
?>
</li>
</ul>
<?php
}
?>
The code above shows the view.
So yeah, back to the question. I want to change the download link to a link in which when clicked, will show the PDF file in a new tab. How do I do that? And by the way, the codes posted above are all working properly. I just want to change my code so that it will be viewed in a new tab when clicked.
Thank you!
According to the docs:
echo $this->Html->link(
'Enter',
'/pages/home',
array('target' => '_blank')
);
I'm trying to get a link in cakephp to point to a specific place on another page but what I imagined would work doesn't.
I'm using
<a name="Telstra"></a>
Telstra
Can anyone tell me the correct way?
You need to use the built-in link function of CakePHP. try to use this code.
<?php echo $this->Html->link('NameOfLink', array('controller' => 'ControllerName', 'action' => 'FunctionName/#Telstra')); ?>
See this url from cakephp docs:
http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/core-libraries/helpers/html.html#HtmlHelper::url
For creating link only
echo $this->Html->url(array(
"controller" => "posts",
"action" => "search",
"#" => "first"
));
and in your case for creating the link with anchor tag,
echo $this->Html->link('Telestra',array(
"controller" => "sponsors",
"action" => "index",
"#" => "Telstra"
));
If you want to load on a specific part of the page you must use ID on the element of your target rather than Name.
Example:
//Your target element on a page
<a name="Telstra"></a>
//URL that will redirect you to your target element.
Telstra
Or might as well code it the cakePhp style. :)
//URL
<?php echo $this->Html->link('Telstra', array('controller' => 'YourController', 'action' => 'YourFUnction', '#TargetElement'));
//Target Element
<a name="Telstra"></a>
Good Luck!
you need put a route in the folde of configuration /app/config/routes.php:
Router::connect('/index', array('controller' => 'yourController', 'action' => 'index'));
or
Router::connect('/index/*', array('controller' => 'yourController', 'action' => 'index'));
I think the parameter you're meaning to put is 'id' and not 'name' and I think you can just put #idName instead of the whole link.
For example:
<a id="Telstra"></a>
Telstra
For more information you can check here: http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_links.asp
I have a CakePHP website with many internal links, that are build with the HtmlHelper:
/app/View/MyController/myaction.ctp
<?php
echo $this->Html->link(
$item['Search']['name'],
array(
'controller' => 'targetcontroller',
'action' => 'targetaction',
$profileId,
$languageId
)
);
?>
It works fine with the default route:
/app/Config/routes.php
Router::connect('/pages/*', array('controller' => 'pages', 'action' => 'display'));
The generated links look like that: /mycontroller/myaction/$profileId/$languageId.
Now I want to use search engine friendly URLs (with profile names and ISO-639-1 language codes instead of IDs) for a part of the website and added a new Route:
/app/Config/routes.php
Router::connect(
'/:iso6391/:name.html',
array('controller' => 'mycontroller', 'action' => 'myaction'),
array(
'iso6391' => '[a-zA-Z]+',
'name' => '[0-9a-zA-ZäöüßÄÖÜ\-]+',
)
);
And it also works fine and the incomming URIs like /producer/en/TestName.html are interpreted correctly.
But the HtmlHelper is still generating the old URIs like /mycontroller/myaction/1/1.
The docu says:
Reverse routing is a feature in CakePHP that is used to allow you to easily change your URL structure without having to modify all your code. By using routing arrays to define your URLs, you can later configure routes and the generated URLs will automatically update.
Well, the HtmlHelper gets a routing array as input, that means: I'm using the reverse routing.
Why does it not work? How to make the HtmlHelper generate the new URLs (without changing the HtmlHelper#link(...) calls)?
Bit of explanation first
You are technically not using reverse routing. You see, the output link, /mycontroller/myaction/1/1 definitively doesn't match /iso/name.html. Like, in no way. So, the routing skips that rule because it doesn't apply.
Code
Try this
echo $this->Html->link(
$item['Search']['name'],
array(
'controller' => 'targetcontroller',
'action' => 'targetaction',
'iso6391' => $someStringWithIso,
'name' => $someName
)
);
But for that, you have to change your routing a bit, because you are not passing the parameters (check the docs for examples)
Router::connect(
'/:iso6391/:name.html',
array('controller' => 'mycontroller', 'action' => 'myaction'),
array(
'pass' => array('iso6391', 'name'),
'iso6391' => '[a-zA-Z]+',
'name' => '[0-9a-zA-ZäöüßÄÖÜ\-]+',
)
);
And you have to mind the first string match /:iso6391/:name.html. Do you want to match this route to every controller and action in your project, or just the one controller and the one view. If it is for all projects, just for precaution, use this
/:controller/:action/:iso6391/:name.html
if is just for, say, Controller1 and action "view", use
/controller1/view/:iso6391/:name.html
The detail you need to consider is the extension you use .html, is that really necessary in the url? If it is, add it as a parameter in the Html#link
echo $this->Html->link(
$item['Search']['name'],
array(
'controller' => 'targetcontroller',
'action' => 'targetaction',
'iso6391' => $someStringWithIso,
'name' => $someName
'ext' => 'html'
)
);
and also add parseExtensions to the routing file. Read this. Would be easier if you don't add the extension, but that's up to you.
In the end, you still have to change your calls to Html->link...
have custom pagination in my cakephp view. before that i made some custom routing changes.
problem is that links leads to pages like
http://localhost/myapp/foos/view/news/page:2
instead of
http://localhost/myapp/news/page:2
so, part with foos/view/ not have to be part of the link.
tried to change url with several custom options, like
$this->Paginator->options(array('url' => $this->passedArgs));
but no luck, because i always have foos/view/ in url.
can you help me how can i get rid of that foos/view?
thank you very much in advance!
UPDATE: i manage to do "something", but not enough, by adding following lines:
$options = array('url'=> array('controller' => 'news' ) );
$paginator->options($options);
now, my link looks like:
http://localhost/myapp/news/index/page:2
how can i get rid of that "index" in url?
The following line is more about passing various pieces of URL information to the view:
$this->Paginator->options(array('url' => $this->passedArgs));
I think what you want to look into is the helper declaration in your Controller:
var $helpers = (
'SomeHelper',
'AnotherHelper',
'Paginator' => array(
'url' => array('controller'=>'news')
)
);
If you want finer control of a custom route like the one you have then try
'url' => '/news'
I haven't used PaginatorHelper in a while - so I could be egregiously on the wrong track - but I believe that's a good start.
Also, take a look at the Paginator Helper page for where it mentions $options and then take a look at Router::url() as the former page recommends.
I had a case where I am working on a project using CakePHP 2.1 (This thread is tagged as 1.3) with a dynamic admin route to display pages like this:
Router::connect('/admin/main/*', array('controller' => 'adminPages', 'action' => 'display'));
With a query string parameter, that produces a dynamic url like this: http://mydomain.com/adminPages/main/...?page=1
The link route, was incorrect for our needs and found I could alter the url directly by using this:
$this->Paginator->options(array(
'url' => array(
'controller' => 'admin/main/my-display',
)
));
For me it made a link: http://mydomain.com/admin/main/my-display?page=1 - which was the correct url we were looking for. If I used a string, as described above, it appends itself to the url, like: http://mydomain.com/adminPages/main/.../admin/main/my-display?page=1
In view :
<?php
$this->Paginator->options(array('url' => array('controller' => '','action' =>'your-custom-url')));
?>
In routes.php :
<?php
Router::connect('/your-custom-url/*', array('controller' => 'Controller', 'action' => 'function'));
?>
I am trying to implement routing in cakephp. I want the urls to mapped like this...
www.example.com/nodes/main -> www.example.com/main
www.example.com/nodes/about -> www.example.com/about
So for this I wrote in my config/routes.php file..
Router::connect('/:action', array('controller' => 'nodes'));
Now, I got the thing going but when I click on the links, the url in browser appears like
www.example.com/nodes/main
www.example.com/nodes/about
Is there some way where I can get the urls to appear the way they are routed?
Setting in .htaccess or httpd.conf would be easy - but I don't have access to that.
Regards
Vikram
This should work:
Router::connect('/main', array('controller' => 'nodes', 'action' => 'main'));
Router::connect('/about', array('controller' => 'nodes', 'action' => 'about'));
You may also do something more powerful, like this:
$actions = array('main','about');
foreach ($actions as $action){
Router::connect('/$action', array('controller' => 'nodes', 'action' => '$action'));
}
Basically if your links are created with Html helper, with the following format:
<?php echo $this->Html->link('your link', array('controller'=>'nodes', 'action'=>'main'));?>
Then the Cake will convert the links properly to www.example.com/main
But if your links are
<?php echo $this->Html->link('your link', '/nodes/main/');?>
they will point to www.example.com/nodes/main