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DanCake
DanCake

Reputation: 2003

Routing to a different URLs based on post type

What would be the best way to set up my routes so different types of posts have different URLs?

For example, regular posts are /posts/slug while featured posts are /featured/slug

Both link to the same controller and action /posts/view/slug.

I experimented with different ways of doing this but with little success. Currently my link params look something like the following:

array('controller' => 'posts', 'action' => 'view', 'featured' ,$post['Post']['slug'])

Edit: I could create an action for each different type and use setAction to use the view action instead. Although is there a better way to do this?

array('controller' => 'posts', 'action' => 'featured', $post['Post']['slug'])

function featured($slug) {
    $this->setAction('view', $slug);
}

Upvotes: 2

Views: 153

Answers (2)

neilcrookes
neilcrookes

Reputation: 4203

This might work:

// app/config/routes.php
Router::connect('/featured/:slug', array(
  'controller' => 'posts',
  'action' => 'view',
  'type' => 'featured'
));
Router::connect('/posts/:slug', array(
  'controller' => 'posts',
  'action' => 'view',
  'type' => 'normal'
));

// one of your views
echo $html->link('Featured post title', array(
  'controller' => 'posts',
  'action' => 'view',
  'type' => 'featured',
  'slug' => $post['Post']['slug']
));
or
echo $html->link('Normal post title', array(
  'controller' => 'posts',
  'action' => 'view',
  'type' => 'normal',
  'slug' => $post['Post']['slug']
));

Upvotes: 0

Young
Young

Reputation: 8356

I think you can also do this by adding follow line in your /app/config/routes.php: 

Router::connect('/:controller/featured/*',array('action' => 'view'));

See route setting in cookbook

Upvotes: 3

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