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Andrea
Andrea

Reputation: 20493

Passing a URL as a URL parameter

I am implementing OpenId login in a CakePHP application. At a certain point, I need to redirect to another action, while preserving the information about the OpenId identity, which is itself a URL (with GET parameters), for instance

https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=31g2iy321i3y1idh43q7tyYgdsjhd863Es

How do I pass this data? The first attempt would be

function openid() {
    ...
    $this->redirect(array('controller' => 'users', 'action' => 'openid_create', $openid));
}

but the obvious problem is that this completely messes up the way CakePHP parses URL parameters.

I'd need to do either of the following:

1) encode the URL in a CakePHP friendly manner for passing it, and decoding it after that, or

2) pass the URL as a POST parameter

but I don't know how to do this.

EDIT: In response to comments, I should be more clear. I am using the OpenId component, and I have a working OpenId implementation. What I need to do is to link OpenId with an existing user system. When a new user logs in via OpenId, I ask for more details, and then create a new user with this data. The problem is that I have to keep the OpenId URL throughout this process.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1095

Answers (3)

bancer
bancer

Reputation: 7525

You can try this way:

$this->redirect(array(
    'controller' => 'users',
    'action' => 'openid_create',
    '?' => array('id' => $openid)
));

Upvotes: 0

dhofstet
dhofstet

Reputation: 9964

My suggestion is to store the url in the session.

Upvotes: 6

Matt Gibson
Matt Gibson

Reputation: 38238

My first suggestion would be to try PHP's urlencode() and urldecode() functions, but I'm not entirely sure what will happen when you encode and decode stuff that's already been url-encoded for the parameters of the OpenID identities.

Upvotes: 1

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