Check for existing controller - cakephp

Question

I've written static pages component for my application, where admins can dynamically add/edit/remove static content pages. these are saved in the database.
(e.g. you can create a page called "about" and can visit it at myapplication/about)
This is my routing for these pages:
$page = new StaticPage();
$slugs = $page->find('list', array(
'fields' => array('slug'),
'recursive' => -1,
'order' => 'StaticPage.slug DESC',
));
Router::connect('/:slug',
array('controller' => 'static_pages', 'action' => 'display'),
array(
'pass' => array('slug'),
'slug' => implode($slugs, '|')
)
);
Now i have the problem, that when you create a page which slug matches an existing controller (e.g. users), it overwrites the Route to the UsersController.
so i need something like a blacklist or similar: i began to write a validation rule, where i want to check if that controller exists. for cake 1.3 there was a function "loadController" which return false, if the controller did not exist, but for cake 2.x there is no such an function. am i missing this somehow? does it have a new name or is in a utility library now?
Or are there better ways to solve this?

Answer 1

you should try this : http://www.cleverweb.nl/cakephp/list-all-controllers-in-cakephp-2/
and by getting the list of all controllers you can easily exclude the name of controllers

Answer 2

This is my validation method for now:
$route = Router::parse($check['slug']);
$controllerName = Inflector::camelize($route['controller'] . 'Controller');
$aCtrlClasses = App::objects('controller');
foreach ($aCtrlClasses as $controller) {
if ($controller != 'AppController') {
// Load the controller
App::import('Controller', str_replace('Controller', '', $controller));
// Load the ApplicationController (if there is one)
App::import('Controller', 'AppController');
$controllers[] = $controller;
}
}
if (in_array($controllerName, $controllers)) {
return false;
} else {
return true;
}