How to display name in the url instead id in Cakephp? - cakephp

Question

I have created an application in cakephp environment,
I am displaying the user profile using user_id in user profile page
I am sending the value to controller using anchor tag like below:
(I can't send the name because it is not unique).
View Profile
Function in User Controller :
function viewprofile($userid){
// my logic
}
the profile url is like this:
http://www.xyz.com/users/12
I want to display the name of user instead user_id
How can we display name(with slug) in url in cakephp
Please help me

Answer 1

echo $this->Html->link('View Profile', array(
'controller' => 'users',
'action'=> 'view',
$result['user']['slug']
));

Answer 2

you have to do 3 things.
Create unique User Slugs (you might have that already ;-) )
Create your links with the code Dave mentioned before
echo $this->Html->link('View Profile', array('controller' => 'users','action'=> 'view',$result['user']['slug']));
tell your routing what to do (/app/condig/routes.php) with it
Router::connect('/user/*', array('controller' => 'users', 'action' => 'view'));
Now you will get pretty urls and the slug will be a parameter that can be used to find the user in your User table

Answer 3

Try this code
echo $this->Html->link('View Profile',array('plugin' => false,
'controller' => 'users',
'action' => 'view',
"slug"=>$data['slug']));
And in your Routes file
Router::connectNamed(array('slug'));
Router::connect('/user/:slug', array(
'plugin' => false,
'controller' => 'users',
'action' => 'view',
),array(
"pass"=>array("slug")
)
);