In my Cake application I have a controller "completed_projects". Its index action takes no arguments and lists some projects. Different pages can be accessed by
example.com/completed_projects/index/page:23 etc.
I want to make the url's like this:
example.com/portfolio/page23
Obviously I need to make some routes for this. I've tried many of them like:
Router::connect('/portfolio/page:num', array('controller' => 'completed_projects', 'action' => 'index'), array('pass'=>'page:num', 'num'=>'[0-9]+'));
and also:
Router::connect('/portfolio/:page:num', array('controller' => 'completed_projects', 'action' => 'index'), array('named'=>'num', 'page'=>'page', 'num'=>'[0-9]+'));
I also tried modifying them again and again but none of them works well.
I am using CakePHP 1.3. Any help will be appreciated.
Router::connect('/portfolio/page:page_num',
array('controller'=>'completed_projects', 'action'=>'index'),
array('page_num'=>'[\d]+')
);
In your controller, access page_num with:
$this->params['page_num'];
Related
Router::connect('/form/search*', array('controller' => 'Mycontoller', 'action' => 'search'));
I am really confused about this. I have query parameters in my URL for eg. localhost:8888/Search?srchTxt=Val.
I need to route everything from Search to a method in the controller. How can I do that in route.php file in CakePHP? is there another way I can accomplish it?
$routes->connect('/Search', ['controller' => 'Others', 'action' => 'my_action']);
https://book.cakephp.org/3.0/en/development/routing.html#routes-configuration
everything after question mark (?) is accessible thru $this->request->query()
https://book.cakephp.org/3.0/en/controllers/request-response.html#query-string-parameters
I'd like to force my site's URL to always have a language suffix.
So, if they type www.mysite.com it should take them to www.mysite.com/en.
I have a default language, so that should be used if it's their first time to the site. If it's not, I have a Cookie being set that I can use...but - I don't know where to use it.
I thought about checking to see if there was a "language" parameter in the URL, then if not, redirecting, but - that seems overkill - is there a better way? Can I do this in routes? or bootstrap?
The most efficient way would be through your web server. You can easily check if the request is for / (the home page) and redirect to /en.
Check the docs for what ever web server you are using, they all have something like mod_rewrite or similar.
Edit
You could set up a route like /set_default_language to redirect to in case of /, this controller can access the db and do what ever it needs.
Alternatively you can make it redirect to /your/usual/language_switch with no language specified and allow the code to use the default.
What I did:
I ended up checking in the AppController's beforeFilter() whether or not $this->request->params['langauge'] was set and if not, building the URL accordingly:
//Redirect to same url, but with language parameter
if (empty($this->request->params['language']) &&
empty($this->request->params['admin'])) {
$defaultLanguageCode = Configure::read('Languages.default.code2');
$cookiedLanguage = $this->Language->activeLanguageByCode($this->Cookie->read('lang'));
$languageToRedirectTo = (!empty($cookiedLanguage['code2'])) ? cookiedLanguage['code2'] : $defaultLanguageCode;
$newURL = '/' . $languageToRedirectTo . $this->request->here;
$this->redirect($newURL);
}
Note:
The part I couldn't figure out (until getting help in IRC) was to build the URL using $this->request->here, which is just the URL as a string. Prior to that I tried building out the array using the params array, but had no luck.
My routes (in case they help anyone)
(Keep in mind, I'm a routes noob, so - although they seem to be working for me, I do NOT guarantee they're done well!)
//root URL and root URL w/ language
Router::connect('/', array('controller' => 'pages', 'action' => 'display', 'home')); // eg: www.google.com takes them to pages/display/home
Router::connect('/:language', array('controller'=>'pages', 'action' => 'display', 'home'), array('language'=>'[a-z]{2}')); // eg: /en takes them to pages/display/home and sets language
//pages (eg. /en/r/the_matrix or /r/the_matrix)
Router::connect('/:language/r/:slug/*', array('controller'=>'pages', 'action'=>'display'), array('language'=>'[a-z]{2}', 'pass'=>array('slug')));
Router::connect('/r/:slug/*', array('controller'=>'pages', 'action'=>'display'), array('pass'=>array('slug')));
//adds language to default URL
Router::connect('/:language/:controller/:action/*', array(), array('language'=>'[a-z]{2}'));
//Route prefixes
Configure::write('Routing.prefixes', array('admin'));
//User related
Router::connect('/login', array('controller' => 'users', 'action' => 'login'));
Router::connect('/logout', array('controller' => 'users', 'action' => 'logout'));
Router::connect('/myaccount', array('controller' => 'users', 'action' => 'my_account'));
//
CakePlugin::routes();
require CAKE . 'Config' . DS . 'routes.php';
If you don't want to redirect the requestAction calls from within your controllers or views you should add the following condition to your IF statement
if (empty($this->request->params['language']) &&
empty($this->request->params['admin']) &&
empty($this->request->params['requested'])) {
...
}
Router::connect('/(?i:about)', array('controller' => 'pages', 'action'=>'display', 'about'));
used to work in CakePHP 1.2 but it seems to not be working in CakePHP 2.x
The only other solution that I see is to use the options to set a regular expression that will match against the a flag in the rout, but it seems rather convoluted for something so simple:
Router::connect('/:aboutFlag', array('controller' => 'pages', 'action'=>'display', 'about'),array("aboutFlag"=>"[aA]bout"));
Is there an easier solution more akin to how it was done in cake 1.2?
Router::connect('/:aboutFlag', array('controller' => 'pages', 'action'=>'display', 'about'),array("aboutFlag"=>"(?i:about)"));
This stems from the answer posted here
I have rewritten my site in Cakephp and choosen to keep the new Cakephp structure. I was wondering if I could use routing in Cakephp for 301-routing (permanently moved).
I want to redirect resources.php, languages.php, clips.php, possibly *.php, to /resources/, /languages/, /clips.
Can this type of 301 redirecting be easily done in CakePHP? I could even write a simple admin-interface to add 301-links, e.g. from a MySQL table to easily administer redirects. Or is it better to do this manually via mod_rewrite?
I'm not sure about the best way, but I would first put routing at routes php like:
Router::connect('/resources.php', array(
'controller' => 'resources',
'action' => 'index'
)
);
(and so on)
After that check at start of the action function which route was used, and if *.php route was used do a 301 redirect:
$this->redirect(array('controller' => 'resources', 'action' => 'index'), 301);
I guess there is also "smarter" way to implement this but this was the idea. (use of before_filter etc)
Since CakePhp 2.x there is Router::redirect() method.
So you could add redirection in your routs:
Router::redirect(
'/resources.php',
array(
'controller' => 'resources',
'action' => 'index'
),
array('status' => 301)
);
The third parameter array('status'=>301) is not necessary because 301-redirect is used by default.
See Redirect routing — CakePHP Cookbook v2.x documentation.
I am trying to connect the next urls:
1) /food/tips
2) /happiness/tips/best_tips
To the following objects:
1) controller=tips / action=index / passed_parameters=food
2) controller=tips / action=index / passed_parameters=(happiness,best_tips)
--edit--
These routes are not fixed.
Meaning: what I try to do is to route every url that have tips as action, to the tips controller, to any fixed(index is good enough) action, and chaining the rest of the url as it was in the original call.
Something like /any_controller/tips/any_param to /tips/index/any_params
-- end edit --
Hope that now there is some sense.
How should it be done?
(please - also explain)
Thanks
the routing is all done through the call Router::connect('thing to catch', 'where to send it');
so it can be as simple as:
Router::connect('/food/tips', '/tips/index/food');
or the preferred method (using cakes built in url builder)
Router::connect('/food/tips/*', array('controller' => 'tips', 'action' => 'index', 'food');
The first method takes a string argument and passes it to another string which would be a url and you would then have to catch it in your controller, and expect a passed parameter through the url.
The second method uses cakes built in url former which takes an array with keys controller and action (there are other options: http://api.cakephp.org/class/router#method-Routerurl)
The second is preferred due to proper formatting and future flexibility (I believe).
any passed parameters in the second method are just passed as un-named items in the array. named parameters are just passed as keyed elements. So if I wanted to create a URL like this
/posts/index/find:all/page:2
I would write the url like this:
Router::connect('/url_to_catch', array('controller' => 'posts', 'action' => 'index', 'find' => 'all', 'page' => 2);
So just to finish up, I would actually pass your parameter through as named:
Router::connect('/happiness/tips/best_tips', array('controller' => 'tips', 'action' => 'index', 'items' => array('happiness', 'best_tips'));
which would need a function in your tips controller that looks like this:
function tips(){ $this->passedArgs['items']; }
I would recommend reading the chapter on Routing the the book, as it will explain things better than I can and it seems counter productive to paste it here.
http://book.cakephp.org/#!/view/948/Defining-Routes
For the sake of explanation I will try,
Router::connect('/food/tips', array('controller' => 'tips', 'action' => 'index', 'food'));
Router::connect('/happiness/tips/best_tips', array('controller' => 'tips', 'action' => 'index', 'happiness','best_tips'));
This should get things working for you. What you are essentially doing is telling the Cake Routing what url you want it to capture, as it will be doing this using Regex. Then you want to tell it which code you want it to run. So this takes a Controller and Action pair, as a set of things to do.
You also want to pass through your named paremeters afterwards. These will tack onto the function in your controller so that you can do stuff with them.
It's quite easy, just check the Router configuration in the manual. You have to use the connect method from the Router class. This accepts 2 parameters. First your desired routed (e.g. food/tips) and second an array with the actual path it should follow. So for your examples you'd do something like this:
Router::connect('/food/tips', array('controller' => 'tips', 'action' => 'index', 'food');
Router::connect('/happiness/tips/best_tips', array('controller' => 'tips', 'action' => 'index', 'happiness', 'best_tips');
This is equivalent to calling TipsController->index('food') and TipsController('happiness', 'best_tips) respectively.
However, your routes look a bit funny. The Cake convention for routes is /controller/action/param1/param2/etc where the parameters param1 etc. are optional and the index action is assumed when no other action is given.
You're taking a different approach and I would suggest (if you can) change it to the Cake conventional routes, as this will save you a lot of work later on because Cake will automatically connect these routes to the desired methods.
So my suggestion is going for tips/food and tips/happiness/best_tips instead of the routes you suggest. This way, you don't have to do any router configuration.
UPDATE
After you're edit, I think it's best to try something with defining custom routes. I can't test this for you at the moment, so you should do some testing yourself, but in that case it would be something like:
Router::connect('/:section/tips/:param',
array('action' => 'index'),
array(
'section' => '[a-z]*',
'param' => '[a-z]*'
)
);
UPDATE2
Sorry, I've tested the above and it doesn't seem to work.