how to change part of url from cakephp's paginator options? - cakephp

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'));
?>

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How to redefine the URLs generation without changes at the HtmlHelper#link(...) calls in CakePHP?

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...

How I can make and use custom url in cakephp

I am using cakephp 2.4.1, I want make following url for my project. how is it possible?
http://example.com/privew/Homepage?=true
or
http://example.com/privew?=true . I tried it like this
Router::connect('/privew/*',array('controller'=>'Admin','action'=>'privew'));
But it is not helping. Anybody knows how to do it
Try to remove the extra slash before * like:
Router::connect('/privew*',array('controller'=>'Admin','action'=>'privew'));
Also I don't know if you have controller Admin, it should be 'admins' though and it should be lowercase.
Router::url(array(
'controller' => 'posts',
'action' => 'index',
'?' => array('page' => 1),
'#' => 'top'
));
// will generate a URL like.
/posts/index?page=1#top
So you can try like this
Refer this for more info
http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/development/routing.html#Router::connectNamed

how to set cakephp paginator url for custom route

I am making blog and url route is like this-
Router::connect('/blog/c/:catid/*',
array('controller' => 'blogarticles', 'action' => 'index'));
it works well with url as- /blog/c/3/other-articles
but when i use paginator in view as
echo $this->Paginator->numbers();
it generates url as- /blogarticles/index/other-articles/page:2
What changes should in make in paginator to generate proper url.
Please suggest possible solution , Thanks in advance
This should solve your problem:
$this->Paginator->options(
array(
'controller' => 'blog',
'action' => 'c',
$catid,
$title
)
);
The trick is to pass blog as the controller and c as the action, and all other variables (NOT LIMITED TO $catid and $title) as additional parameters, sequentially!
NOTE: I assumed here that you have "set" $catid and $title from your Controller, to the current "category id" and "title" respecting. I also assumed that your URLs are always in the format: /blog/c/:catid/:title
You may also want to view my answer to a similar question: https://stackoverflow.com/a/25097693/2862423
What you want is to set the options for the PaginatorHelper for that view:
<?php $this->Paginator->options(array('url' => '/blog/c/3/other-articles')); ?>
CakePHP Book Section on the PaginatorHelper Options Function: http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/core-libraries/helpers/paginator.html#modifying-the-options-paginatorhelper-uses

Cakephp route and prefix

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

CakePHP Routing - [home]/slug as URL

I'm trying to get to grips with Cake's routing, but I'm having no luck finding a solution to my particular problem.
I want to map www.example.com/slug to www.example.com/venues/view/slug, where slug is the URL friendly name of a record for a particular venue.
I also want to then map www.example.com/slug/events to www.example.com/events/index/venue:slug.
After reading the CakePHP documentation on Routing, a few times over, I'm none the wiser. I understand how I would create these routes for each individual venue, but I'm not sure how to get Cake to generate the routes on the fly.
You want to be careful mapping something to the first path after the domain name. This means that you would be breaking the controller/action/param/param paradigm. You can do this, but it may mean that you need to define every url for your site in your routes file rather than using Cake's routing magic.
An alternative may be to use /v/ for venues and /e/ for events to keep your url short but break up the url for the normal paradigm.
If you still want to do what you requested here, you could do something like the following. It limits the slug to letters, numbers, dashes, and underscores.
Router::connect(
'/:slug',
array(
'controller' => 'venues',
'action' => 'view'
),
array(
'slug' => '[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+'
)
);
Router::connect(
'/:slug/:events',
array(
'controller' => 'events',
'action' => 'index'
),
array(
'slug' => '[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+'
)
);
In your controller, you would then access the slug with the following (using the first route as an example).
function view(){
if(isset($this->params['slug'])){
//Do something with your code here.
}
}
First off, you're not connecting www.example.com/slug to www.example.com/venues/view/slug, you're connecting /slug to a controller action. Like this:
Router::connect('/:slug',
array('controller' => 'venues', 'action' => 'view'),
array('pass' => array('slug'));
To generate the appropriate link, you'd do the same in reverse:
$this->Html->link('Foo',
array('controller' => 'venues', 'action' => 'view', 'slug' => 'bar'))
That should result in the link /bar.
The problem with routing a /:slug URL is that it's a catch-all route. You need to carefully define all other routes you may want to use before this one.

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