When visiting a default CakePHP site, it takes you to "home.ctp" page.
Router::connect('/', array('controller' => 'pages', 'action' => 'display', 'home'));
I want to add a few elements there (like blog posts), so I thought I could just add this to the PagesController() class:
public function home() {
$this->set('blogposts', $this->Blogpost->find('all'));
}
But that does not work.
So: what is the correct way to add something like this on the home page (or any other page for that matter)
The preferred option is to create a custom route for the home page but you can also override the PagesController's display function
Option 1: (Preferred Method)
Router::connect('/', array('controller' => 'mycontroller', 'action' => 'myaction'));
Option 2
Router::connect('/', array('controller' => 'pages', 'action' => 'home'));
Option 3:
class PagesController {
function display()
{
// default controller code here
// your custom code here
}
}
The final option is using requestAction in your view, but it isn't recommended as it has a huge performance drawback
Option 4: (Not recommended)
$newsitems = $this->requestAction(array('controller' => 'newsitems', 'action' => 'getlatestnews', 'limit' => 10));
In fact, the action is display, home is a parameter. So your main method in the Controller Pages must call display, not home. After that, create display.ctp view.
Reference:
Routing
To actually answer the original question:
$this->loadModel('Blogpost');
Ideally the model should be called
$this->loadModel('BlogPost');
Related
I have to link to different actions in PagesController.
I have created many static pages and for that I have defined an action like
public function contact(){
}
now when I access www.mysite.com/pages/contact instead of opening contact.ctp it opens the default display action.
The routes.php file contains
Router::defaultRouteClass('DashedRoute');
Router::scope('/', function (RouteBuilder $routes) {
$routes->connect('/', ['controller' => 'Pages', 'action' => 'display', 'home']);
$routes->connect('/pages/*', ['controller' => 'Pages', 'action' => 'display']);
$routes->fallbacks('DashedRoute');
});
Plugin::routes();
How can I access the static pages or other actions of PagesController?
$routes->connect('/pages/:action/*', ['controller' => 'Pages']);
Now you can call to diferent actions. e.g.
www.mysite.com/pages/contact
www.mysite.com/pages/about
www.mysite.com/pages/someaction
The default routing for the PagesController is to direct everything to the display action.
In order to add additional actions, you would need to route these specifically.
$routes->connect('/pages/contact', ['controller' => 'Pages', 'action' => 'contact']);
Or, alternatively, if you do not want everything to go through the display action, remove the specific line in routes.php that directs everything there. CakePHP would auto-route anything beginning with /pages/ to the PagesController, and anything after the slash to it's appropriate action.
If you make the view file src/Template/Pages/contact.ctp you can access it using the URL http://example.com/pages/contact
No need to change anythin in routes.php they are fine. No need to create a method in your PagesController, this is a simple and optional controller for serving up static content.
Is it possible to identify a controller and pagename in the same url
Router::connect('/:controller/');
Router::connect('/:pagename/', array('controller' => 'home','action'=>'index'));
www.example.com/controller
so that the controller goes to the :controller/index
www.example.com/pagename
so that the page goes to home/index
Its really confusing what really you wants. If a url ends with :controller like www.example.com/posts its generally map index action. Now if the url ends with pagename, means action, like www.example.com/mypage, you can map that as-
Router::connect('/mypage', array('controller' => 'homes', 'action' => 'index'));
So when a user browse www.example.com/mypage, it will map to HomesController and index action.
Try following code for pagename:
Router::connect('/:slug', array('controller' => 'home', 'action' => 'index'));
UPDATE 1
If you want to treat www.example.com/user as same as www.example.com/users then you need to add following, because CakePHP controller name is plural as per CakePHP naming convention:
Router::connect('/user/:action/*', array('controller' => 'users'));
UPDATE 2
Router::connect(':slug') overwrite all of default routing. So you need to use custom routing class as like as :
App::uses('SlugRoute', 'Routing/Route');
Router::connect(
'/:slug',
array('controller' => 'home', 'action' => 'index'),
array('routeClass' => 'SlugRoute')
);
I'm trying to set up a routing definition in my project which will allow users to have profiles accessible by simply using their username as the only parameter in the url, like www.example.com/username as opposed to www.example.com/user/view/username
I've set up a catch all route to go to an action which checks if the user exists, as the last route in the config file, and it works, but it over rides all of the basic routing that cake does. Meaning that I would have to define a route for every controller I want to provide access to just to make sure I never make it to the catchall. My routes:
Router::connect('/events/edit/*', array('controller' => 'events', 'action' => 'edit'));
Router::connect('/events/view/*', array('controller' => 'events', 'action' => 'view'));
Router::connect('/events/add', array('controller' => 'events', 'action' => 'add'));
Router::connect('/events/*', array('controller' => 'events', 'action' => 'index'));
Router::connect('/*', array('controller' => 'users', 'action' => 'view'));
So, this will allow me to access my events page, but any other pages get sent to the second router, expectedly.
What I'd like is to have is a route that does the basic cake function of /controller/action/param if the controller exists, but have it fall through to the last route which goes to the user/view page otherwise.
My question is, for what I'm trying to accomplish, am I doing this the right way? If I need to define a route for every controller I want access to, I will, but I have to think there's a better way to accomplish this.
Thanks
According to the my understanding of your question, I think You can proceed like this.
App::uses('UserRoute','Lib');
Router::connect('/:user_name', array('controller' => 'users', 'action' => 'view'),
array('routeClass'=>'UserRoute', 'pass' => array('user_name')));
and in your app/lib create a file UserRoute.php like this
<?php
App::uses('Lib', 'CakeRoute');
class UserRoute extends CakeRoute {
function parse($url) {
$params = parent::parse($url);
if (empty($params)) {
return false;
}
App::import('Model', 'User');
$User = new User();
$user_count = $User->find('count',array(
'conditions' => array('User.username' => $params['user_name']),
'recursive' => -1
));
if ($user_count) {
return $params;
}
return false;
}
}
Hope this will help you..
i am working on a Cakephp 2.x.. i want to remove the action or controller name from url ... for example i am facing a problem is like that
i have a function name index on my Messages controller in which all the mobile numbers are displaying
the url is
www.myweb.com/Messages
now in my controller there is a second function whose name is messages in which i am getting the messages against the mobile number
so now my url becomes after clicking the number is
www.myweb.com/Messages/messages/823214
now i want to remove the action name messages because it looks weired...
want to have a url like this
www.myweb.com/Messages/823214
When connecting routes using Route elements you may want to have routed elements be passed arguments instead. By using the 3rd argument of Router::connect() you can define which route elements should also be made available as passed arguments:
// SomeController.php
public function messages($phoneNumber = null) {
// some code here...
}
// routes.php
Router::connect(
'/messages/:id', // E.g. /messages/number
array('controller' => 'messages', 'action' => 'messages'),
array(
// order matters since this will simply map ":id"
'id' => '[0-9]+'
)
);
and you can also refer link above given by me, hope it will work for you.
let me know if i can help you more.
REST Routing
The example in the question looks similar to REST routing, a built in feature which would map:
GET /recipes/123 RecipesController::view(123)
To enable rest routing just use Router::mapResources('controllername');
Individual route
If you want only to write a route for the one case in the question
it's necessary to use a star route:
Router::connect('/messages/*',
array(
'controller' => 'messages',
'action' => 'messages'
)
);
Usage:
echo Router::url(array(
'controller' => 'messages',
'action' => 'messages',
823214
));
// /messages/823214
This has drawbacks because it's not possible with this kind of route to validate what comes after /messages/. To avoid that requires using route parameters.
Router::connect('/messages/:id',
array(
'controller' => 'messages',
'action' => 'messages'
),
array(
'id' => '\d+',
)
);
Usage:
echo Router::url(array(
'controller' => 'messages',
'action' => 'messages',
'id' => 823214 // <- different usage
));
// /messages/823214
in config/routes.php
$routes->connect('/NAME-YOU-WANT/:id',
['controller' => 'CONTROLLER-NAME','action'=>'ACTIOn-NAME'])->setPass(['id'])->setPatterns(['id' => '[0-9]+']
);
You can use Cake-PHP's Routing Features. Check out this page.
I have a problem with Routes in CakePHP. Let me explain.
I'm using authentication through the Auth component. I have a routing prefix called account.
When I want to edit a user, I'm calling the users controller which gives me a URL like:
/account/users/edit/5
What I want is to have a URL like:
/account/edit/5
So I changed my router like this:
Router::connect('/:prefix/edit/:id',
array('controller' => 'users', 'action' => 'edit'),
array('pass' => array('id'), 'id' => '[0-9]+')
);
which worked when I try to access /account/edit/5
My problem is located in my view. How can I access this route using the Html->link helper?
So far, I'm just doing it like this:
'/'.$this->Session->read('Auth.User.role').'/edit/'.$this->Session->read('Auth.User.id')
But it's not really clean in my opinion. I want to use the helper.
Thanks a lot for your help
Using a prefix "account" would mean needing an action like "account_edit" in your controller. That's probably not what you want. Also why put the "id" in url when it's already there in the session? Why not just use url "/account" for all users and get the id (and role if required) from session in the action?
Router::connect('/account',
array('controller' => 'users', 'action' => 'edit')
);
This would be the clean way to generate required url:
$this->Html->link('Account', array(
'controller' => 'users',
'action' => 'edit'
));
// Will return url "/account"
In general always use array form to specify url to benefit from reverse routing.
everything is just fine except router. it should be
Router::connect('/account/*',
array('controller' => 'users', 'action' => 'edit')
);
and creating anchor link in various way using Helper you can CHECK HERE